[MPlayer-users] NOVIRUS libcaca flame

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:49:17AM +0000, Kara White wrote:
> I'm very surprised mplayerhq.hu linked to libcaca's site 
> (http://sam.zoy.org/projects/libcaca/) when its creator has this to say on 
> the very front page:
> 
> --- begin quote ---
> There is a work in progress for xine called cacaxine (see this email). 
> Zeeshan Ali wrote a GStreamer plugin. I am not aware of an MPlayer patch 
> yet (but you should not be using MPlayer anyway, because it sucks).
> --- end quote ---
> 
> Any thoughts?

Yes, the author is stupid. If you don't believe me, look at how
horrible libcaca's output is compared to aalib...

Rich