[MPlayer-users] Quicktime playback on MPlayer/Linux --Somevideos play in ultra-slow-motion?

[The Wanderer]

evert vorster wrote:

> To all the other readers of this list, please accept my apologies, I
> really did not want to go in to a flame war.

Very few people ever do.

I, for the record, am likely to drop this immediately if it reaches the
point of outright flames rather than anything resembling serious
discussion. I'm not sure it's far from that point now, but I'm not
convinced it's there yet.

>> So tell me again, all this being the case, why exactly do you
>> bother?
> 
> I really enjoy messing with software, and get enjoyment out of fixing
>  things that are broken.
> 
> If Linux annoys you so much, why do you bother?

My understanding is that he doesn't: my understanding is that he tried
it, encountered something approximating the situation he describes, and
abandoned it in disgust. Which is perfectly fine, he's entitled to do
that.

What he's not entitled to do is to then badmouth it and everything to do
with it to other people who don't know any better, and then complain
when people object to that - without even being polite enough to explain
why their reports of a different experience do not apply.

-- 
       The Wanderer

Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.

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