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

[The Wanderer]

The Wanderer wrote:

> This is, however, not about that. This is about your claim that
> MPlayer compilation and installation is too complicated to work
> reliably for the ordinary user. I have said, and I repeat, that the
> basic "obtain source tree ; ./configure ; make ; make install"
> procedure works flawlessly for me on every computer I've tried it on,
> without tweaking or customization of either the computer or the
> source tree. Your only response to this has been to object to having
> to obtain and unpack the source tree. Since obtaining and unpacking
> the source tree is essential to even be able to run the "./configure
> ; make ; make install" steps which you said would fail miserably in
> less than absolutely perfect circumstances, I do not see how this
> constitutes a legitimate counterargument.

Okay, I don't think I expressed that clearly. Let me try again.

You (Phil Rhods) said "'./configure ; make ; make install' will fail
miserably in most cases".

I said "nonsense, it's worked flawlessly for me from the beginning".

You said "this must be because you customized your system to make that
happen".

I said "no, this was on a fresh, unmodified installation of a popular
distribution".

You said "but having to obtain and unpack the source is too hard for
most people".

This last A: seems to me like a non sequitur and B: ignores the fact
that having the source is a prerequisite for the steps which you said
will fail.

Since this is the case, and since what I was initially objecting to is
the claim that those steps will fail in most cases, I am not sure why
you brought up the point in the first place. The only obvious
explanation I can think of is that you are attempting to argue in bad
faith rather than to engage in serious discussion, and I'd rather not
impute those motivations to you without more solid evidence.

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       The Wanderer

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side of it.

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