[MPlayer-users] About future MPlayer developements (for Árpád Gereöffy if you have time !)

[Shaun Green]

>From reports from 'Winders' savvy friends, they tend to like Winamp with
AVI plugin the best. Zoom player used to be the best, but it doesn't
play the audio generated by mencoder or avidemux when you search through
the AVI.

So, Winamp is the only Winders player I've seen that even plays mencoder
AVI's correctly.

But in my opinion, Winders is mainly a gaming OS anyway, and shouldn't
be used for much else esp. like important work. Once the registry gets
corrupt, that's it; you have to reinstall everything unless you have a
ghost image.

Shaun


On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 08:26, Eric NICOLAS wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Hi,
> 
> I have read with great interest your presentation about MPlayer (http://mplayer.lgb.hu/index-en.html).
> 
> Although I agree with you about the problems with threading (cache miss, context-switch time cost, difficult debugging), I do not agree when you say that SMP is only for servers. First MPlayer will run one day on servers if you plan on doing a streaming server with it, and a single threaded application may become a problem at that time. Second I know many people (including me) having dual-CPU PCs at home.
> 
> Now I have a question about future developement of MPlayer which you don't address in your article. Do you plan on supporting Windows as a platform ? As you know, the players there are not great (Windows Media Player with all its spyware, RealOne the same, DivX player which crashes once every two files, etc...). And windows users would love to get a very good player like yours.
> 
> As I am a reasonably skilled developer, is that something I could plan on working on for you ? Do you think it is feasible or are there some major show stoppers for a Windows port of MPlayer ?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> 
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