[MPlayer-users] Attitude Anyone?

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > Hey, you guys are a great resource and I hope I have not offended
> > anyone, If I have, I apologize in advance.
> 
> I agree, the developers have done a stand up job of writing both mplayer
> and its documentation. It saddens me though, to see the number of people
> who apologize just for speaking up or asking a question. People,
> especially newbies, are wary to even ask a question here. On other
> lists, I have seen xine recommended over mplayer for the soul reason
> that this list is a hostile place for newbies. If the developers don't
> mind this, then by no means change, but I think that more users help a
> project grow in terms of functions and acceptability.

the main fact: we don't need newbies.
why?
- mplayer/mencoder was not 'designed' for them - no nice cool gui,
userfriendly interface, easy usage...  these tools are for advanced users,
who prefer commandline over gui, who learnt that writting few line script and
using it is much more faster than clocking 100 times to set up an encoding.
who are able to read docs and finetune options and play with very
experimental options and drivers - newbie just come here and tell us that it
doesn't work, while we know it well that it doesn't work yet and it's
written down too
- newbies won't make patches, help development, tell us constructive
suggestions, feature requests. they keep asking the most wanted 10 feature
request while all fof them are impossible at the moment, otherwise we
would already implement it. advanced users will understand this or start
coding...

so, the main question: who the hell wants more newbies? the answer: xine :)

so, ppl recommending xine for ewbies are right. mplayer is not the best 
for them. anyway, when they learnt the video/audio basics, what is codec and
what is Xv, or what tehhell is decss, then they'll move to mplayer because
they will find it better...


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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