[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] kde screensaver stuff using system()

Attila Kinali attila at kinali.ch
Tue Feb 6 22:21:45 CET 2007


On Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:13:55 +0100
Nicolas George <nicolas.george at ens.fr> wrote:

> That sentence surprises me. I thought that it was all mplayer was about:
> dealing with badly designed audio and video formats, video drivers, etc.,
> and despite their braindeadness, managing to bring high-quality output to
> the user.

Then you missunderstood something. MPlayer was always about
watching all video files out there. No matter how broken it is.
But MPlayer always (or nearly always) refused to include
workarounds for broken software that its users used.
Be it gcc, screensaver or window manager.

			Attila Kinali
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