[MPlayer-users] Re: mplayer under windows

[Diego Biurrun]

Vladimir Mosgalin wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Pawel J. Maczewski wrote:
> 
> PJM>  Is it possible to compile mplayer under windows? ;> I use linux
> PJM>  myself, 
> 
> Yes you can, but I don't recommend you to do this.

Have you tried it recently?  It's improved a lot.

> Anyway, in my opinion you shouldn't use mplayer under win. There are a
> lot of players, some of them has features that even mplayer lacks ;) -
> for example, Crystal Player developed by my familiar
> (http://rain.ifmo.ru/~bondkim).

What does it do that MPlayer does not?

> And mplayer under windows is much worse then mplayer under *nix.

Yes, but it's getting there.

Diego