[MPlayer-DOCS] [homepage]: r3403 - trunk/src/news.en

[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

The Wanderer <inverseparadox <at> comcast.net> writes:

> If I can't get the updated drivers, I obviously can't test them.

The announcement on mplayerhq.hu contains a link to a forum. The forum's top
sticky post contains three drivers for your graphic card (and several drivers
for older ones). 180.29 does not allow compilation with vdpau support for latest
svn. Choose one of the newer ones and you are fine.

I understand now that the commit that broke compilation with the older driver
(not the one for the homepage) may have been too early. But first, 180.29 has
some issues, iirc.
Then, while I remember years ago, I had to search endlessly on a particularly
ugly homepage filled with elements we all don't like to find a driver
announcement filled with marketing speech we dislike even more that finally
(iirc) pointed to an ftp side.
Following above forum link, you get to a short and amazingly clear driver
announcement with a link to the same ftp side.

I will surely never again search for a nvidia driver on the nvidia homepage (but
only in the sticky post) and I somehow imagined (prematurely) that everybody
would feel this way.

I will not revert the commit (if somebody else believes it is a good idea, I
will not start a flame-war), but I wanted to try to make it a bit more clearer
on the homepage.

It is exactly the same as with MPlayer: Go for latest version;-)

Carl Eugen