[MPlayer-DOCS] CVS: homepage/src projects.src.en,1.89,1.90

Diego Biurrun diego at biurrun.de
Thu Oct 7 17:04:04 CEST 2004


On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 04:42:10PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> 
> > +	<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xbyamp">yamp</a><br>
> > +		YAMP stands for Yet Another Multimedia player. It's a multimedia
> > +		player for the Xbox based on MPlayer and FFmpeg</li>
> 
> what a bad name. there was a player named YAMP (yet another mpeg player)
> at times when i started mplayer development. it was the first player with
> crop support, anyway it was its only feature, the rest was broken :)
> afair it was sdl based, and used smpeg as codec.

Nice to get a history lesson here..  Yes, deciding upon names is difficult
and most good names seem to taken already.  It's probably not easy at all to
come up with a good name that is not taken already, FireAnimal being the
latest example...

Diego




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