[MPlayer-users] Re: [Mplayer-advusers] Stop time.

Nico nsabbi at libero.it
Mon Oct 13 18:11:12 CEST 2003



Alban Bedel wrote:

>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>Hi Konstantinos Karydas,
>
>on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:23:35 +0300 you wrote:
> 
>  
>
>>That's not true, that nobody ever needed the stop function. There are
>>many people from time to time wondering and/or complaining why there is
>>no stop function in mplayer (something like -endpos in mencoder). I
>>think the most reasonable and wise thing to do would be the mplayer
>>people to consider implementing such a function for the new MPlayer
>>release, say"MPlayer-1.0pre3". They would receive many "thank you" and
>>"thank God" I believe.
>>    
>>
>I think that you fail to see where the problem is. None of the devs
>implemented it until now beside some user request. This show that
>probably none of them is intersted in writing that.
>However if someone send a proper patch i see no reason why it should
>be refused.
>
>This is a recurent problem. Most ppl seems to think devs will implement
>what the users of their program want. But this is free software, it's
>made by ppl on their free time. So these ppl write what they want,
>not what others want !!! And the users ? They should just send good
>bug reports ;)
>
>	Albeu
>
and possibly good patches, too, right?





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