[MPlayer-dev-eng] MPlayer name change [AGAIN]

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sat Apr 24 15:28:27 CEST 2004


Hi,

> >>>>MPlayer - The Movie Player
> >>
> >>I do not think MPlayer's name should include the word
> >>"Movie", because it can play audio files just fine,
> >>as well as audio CDs, radio stations, TV channels, etc.
> > 
> > Agree. The word "Movie" must go.
> > And the word "Player" should go too, as it can not only play,
> > but can record, dump, demux, convert, filter and whatever.
> > So, i propose the name: "MPlayer, The"
> 
> I think we had this discussion already: Even google tells you not to use 
> "The". And MPlayer is the name of the executable. So I would suggest "" 
> as name...

wrong. the executable is "mplayer". so what about the name "s/mp/MP/g" ?


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