15 May 2002 16:14
Kudos!
Chris Gleba <chris.gleba <at> miab.aorcentaf.af.mil>
2002-05-15 14:14:23 GMT
2002-05-15 14:14:23 GMT
[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html] Hello, I just wanted to congratulate the developers of mplayer! Frankly, mplayer is not only the best media player in Linux but it is the best media processor/player that I have ever used. It is very fast, reliable, stable, feature-filled yet not bloated. It's error recovery and stability are mind boggling -- it will play damaged video files that other, ahem, "commercial" players just plain crash on. I especially like the CLI as well as the ability to use just about any output an input method there is -- I'm especially amused by the aalib output and love the ability to play a dvd on the root window in X. The flexibility, number of options and the clean architecture are as beautiful as well written poetry. I have been using it since .60 and am currently using .90. I recently bought a new laptop and I was almost certain that I wasn't going to be able to play DVDs under Linux because of the Mach64 video card (the xvideo extension for this card is not supported in XF86 4.2). Reading the documentation I found out about the xvidix output option, used it and voila -- it worked! The playback was a little jittery but I atributed it to slow hardware and was happy -- until I found out about the double-buffering option and the cache option. Now playback is *flawless*! I never expected that. I also use mplayer on my other computer through directfb which works awesome. The *only* reason before mplayer I ever booted to windows was for video playback with odd file types and where I needed fast playback speed compared to the other linux players. Since mplayer I have been(Continue reading)
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