[MPlayer-dev-eng] [green-lord at mail.ru: mplayer was awarded on Vingrad.ru, project: "Vingrad Linux/Unix awards"]

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

Hi ak!

 On 2006.08.15 at 00:10:40 +0300, ak wrote next:

> > Hey, we got an award from Russia :-)
> > 
> > Now if somebody can read that stuff or give me a better URL to link to
> > (maybe even in English?) ...
> > 
> > Diego
> 
> Hmm, doen't look very authorative.
> I searched for 'mplayer' on their forums (the only place that's
> functional on the site, it seems), the closest thing is 'The best media player
> for *NIX' poll, where mplayer has beaten xine by whopping 9 votes to 6...
> Vingrad maybe is one of the largest Russian developers forums, yet VB or
> Delphi forums seem more alive then *nix section will ever be.

Well there are some nice developers' forums in Russia, but you can
hardly hear about "Vingrad", let alone it beeing the largest one.. Also
it's definitely out of place when it comes to unix/linux news,
discussing, support and development, there are really great resources
like opennet.ru, slashdot-like resources like linux.org.ru and so on.
Vingrad has no place among them, that's for sure.

As mplayer hardly falls both in "Perl, Delphi, C++, PHP, CGI, Visual
Basic, ASM" vingard's purpose category (I mean, it's plain C with asm
and tiny bits of C++ and shell) and isn't really a development tool,
I don't know what is it doing there. There is unix support section on
their forums, but it's really small and gurus/noobs ratio isn't big too.

There is a thread mentioned,
http://forum.vingrad.ru/index.php?showtopic=106990&st=0
mplayer won that poll ;)
If you read comments, you'll understand why some people have choosed
xine - for example, mplayer is blamed for having compilation problems
with gcc 4.1, while xine is fine (probably it was about some old
version).  For having too much dependencies on other libraries when
compiling. For having major slowdowns and 100% cpu load when playing
broken files or files with zeroes/holes inside. For no (stable) dvd menu
support.  Other people prefer it for having many output drivers,
especially for opengl and sdl ones, for wma support etc. A few wise guys
who know that almost all these features and misfeatures apply to xine as
well ;)

You know, the usual stuff. Nothing really interesting, you probably
read it thousand times on other forums. A bunch of myths and few people
who know the truth, but can't outvoice the crowd nor really interested
in doing that.

As about that picture, the words on top are "golden branch". Don't ask
what it means.

Still, even if smells like fake award, don't be disappointed: I can
assure you that almost all my friends who use linux are really into
mplayer, also few windows users I know prefer it to everything else. And
I'm sure it's the most popular player among Russian Linux users.

-- 

Vladimir