[MPlayer-users] Can't get crop to work

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sun Aug 11 22:30:02 CEST 2002


Hi,

> All you did wrong was to use buggy software.
> 
> As other people have mentioned, you can't copy and crop at the same time, but
> if the software were properly written this wouldn't cause a segfault either.
> 
> It seems to be a common belief by users (and unfortunately relied upon by far
> too many programmers) that if a program crashes horribly the user must have
> made some mistake, but the truth is that if a program crashes horribly (as
> opposed to, for example, printing an error message which actually identifies
> the problem and exiting) it's ALWAYS the programmer's fault.

agree. so feel free to fix it and send patch, or at least send a proper
bugreport...

flaming the developers of an opensource nonprofit project may be funny, but
isn't useful at all.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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Developer of MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux - http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu




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