[MPlayer-users] Is MPlayer the right one? How to Install it without "root"

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:11:16AM +0100, Götz Waschk wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> Am Sonntag, 16. März 2003, 04:17:26 Uhr MET, schrieb thcuong:
> > 1)I wanna build a video player on Linux, capable of playing at least 
> > MPEG 1, 2 formats.
> > Anyone here tell me which open-source player is the simplest (be it by 
> > Java or C/C++) available on Linux?.
> > Is MPlayer the right one?.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> all the good Linux players can play MPEG 1 and 2, MPlayer is no exception.

How is "all the good Linux players" any different from just saying
MPlayer? :)

Rich