[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPCF proposal

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 03:09:25PM -0000, Luis.F.Correia wrote:
> >> 
> >> If not, then the new format will only serve Linux users.
> >
> >No. It will only fail to serve the windows users who are too 
> >stupid to download mplayer and insist on using crashing/buggy wmp,
> divxplayer, etc.
> 
> No need to be that offensive.
> 
> Windows pays my salary, that's why i use it.
> 
> And yes, I was one of the stupid windows users that downloaded MPlayer to
> test 
> and now I have promoted it to my standard player for movie watching.
> 
> But a lot of my friends simply do not have the extra machines where they
> could 
> install Linux to test.

The whole point of my message was that MPlayer runs on windows too! So
there's no excuse for not using it!

> That was just a simple question, not a need to flame someone.
> I will not make any further remarks on MPCF.

Feel free to continue commenting if you like. I agree that in the long
term, support in the popular-but-crappy windows apps might be useful,
but first we have to get it implemented (and put some mpcf files on
p2p ;) so the windows people start *wanting* to be able to play them.
:)

Rich