[MPlayer-dev-eng] Happy Birthday MPlayer!!!

[compn]

On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:01:45 +0100, Arpi wrote:
>Hi,
>
>It was exactly 10 years ago, that I've released first MPlayer version, v0.01:
>http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/old_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz
>Yes, f*cking 10 years!!!! Nov 11, 2000... Time goes on so fast...
>
>I want to thank you all for the contributions, patches, bugs, docs, testing etc.
>
>Especially Michael Niedermayer, Fabrice Bellard and Nick Kurshev,
>who made it to be the best & fastest open-source player!
>
>And sorry Nick, I made a big mistake rejecting your multi-threaded patches.
>Unfortunatelly your idea came too early, nobody (at least me) thought that
>desktop PCs will ever have multiple CPUs...  and now that even cheap notebooks
>and netbooks have multi-core CPUs, it would be very useful for HD playback...
>
>Also special thanks to Gabucino, Pontscho and LGB, for your support in the
>early days, when everybody thought i'm mad, working on video player for linux...
>
>A'rpi
>
>ps: Albeu, i'll never forgive your playtree patches :)

i also wish to thank all of the developers and helpers of
mplayer/ffmpeg/xine and other projects that shared resources, code,
samples and bugreports. without you i'd still have to use realplayer,
quicktime and windows media player!

your hard work helped form billion dollar companies (youtube). you took
an entire generation of confusing codecs, countless containers and
slow hardware and mashed them into one fast media project.

now if we could just get someone to write up a news entry for this
birthday.

-compn