[MPlayer-users] bugs in MPlayer-1.0pre8

[Nico Sabbi]

Uwe Bugla wrote:

>Hi folks,
>I like MPlayer very much and I am new to this list.
>I have found three points to be criticised in latest release 1.0pre8.
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>1. I am missing the xv output driver because my graphics card (ATI RAGE 128 32 MB RAM) urgently needs it as it is the only one that works fine.
>2. The graphics drivers are not found if MPlayer is being started from a non-root directory, i. e. any home directory.
>3. I am still wondering why
>- the dvbstream engine has not been updated to latest version 0.6
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LOL, I maintain both dvbstream and stream_dvb, and no: I didn't forget 
to update
any of the two

>- the configure script of MPlayer still looks for DVB /dev/ost- devices
>which are definitely stonehenge since October 2002.
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so what? both apis are supported

>For a very very long time MPlayer has been my personal number one as a Linux multimedia player. This has changed definitely. My present number one since release 1.0 pre8 is xine-ui 0.99.4.
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enjoy it

>Hope there is someone reading this and fix the critized errors.
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>Thanks and lots of greetings
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>Uwe
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