[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 07:19:03AM -0700, Michael Halcrow wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 04:54, Arpi wrote:
> > > Probably not, but will it lose the race against xine?
> > 
> > imho we lose it already. see xine, its popularity started to grow since a
> > month and keeps growing. while we spend our expensive time by rev.
> > engineering codecs, optimizing code, writing demuxers, they improve the gui.
> > then they 'steal' the others and win. we have no chance against xine...
> > Ah, stability. Yes, in old days mplayer was rock solid while xine crashed at
> > every second click. It has been changed: mplayer is now everything but
> > stable (thanks to that many hacks and 10l bugs), while xine improved
> > stability a lot...
> 
> Before we get any hard feelings over ``losing'' to xine, I'd like to

IMNSHO this is nonsense, xine sucks. Any program I can't use without
slow X crap isn't worth using.

> we do it to benefit the community. If xine ``steals'' code from mplayer
> to make a better product, as long as it's GPL and free to the community,
> I for one don't mind at all. We can ``steal'' code from xine all we
> want, too, because it's an Open Source project. That's the beauty of

Agreed. And BTW mplayer 'stole' SVQ1 from xine, iirc. :))

Rich