Author: compn Date: Thu Nov 11 21:08:16 2010 New Revision: 3538 Log: add birthday entry Modified: trunk/src/news.en Modified: trunk/src/news.en ============================================================================== --- trunk/src/news.en Wed Nov 3 08:54:43 2010 (r3537) +++ trunk/src/news.en Thu Nov 11 21:08:16 2010 (r3538) @@ -141,7 +141,43 @@ </div> --> +<div class="newsentry"> + +<h2> + <a name="bday">2010-11-11, Thursday :: Happy Birthday MPlayer!</a> + <br><span class="poster">posted by Compn</span> +</h2> + +<p> +A message from the creator of MPlayer, Arpi: +Hi, +</p> +<p> +It was exactly 10 years ago, that I've released first MPlayer version, v0.01: +http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/old_stuff/releases/MPlayer-0.01.tar.gz +Yes, f*cking 10 years!!!! Nov 11, 2000... Time goes on so fast... +</p> +<p> +I want to thank you all for the contributions, patches, bugs, docs, testing etc. +Especially Michael Niedermayer, Fabrice Bellard and Nick Kurshev, +who made it to be the best & fastest open-source player! +</p> +<p> +And sorry Nick, I made a big mistake rejecting your multi-threaded patches. +Unfortunatelly your idea came too early, nobody (at least me) thought that +desktop PCs will ever have multiple CPUs... and now that even cheap notebooks +and netbooks have multi-core CPUs, it would be very useful for HD playback... +</p> +<p> +Also special thanks to Gabucino, Pontscho and LGB, for your support in the +early days, when everybody thought i'm mad, working on video player for linux... +</p> +<p> +A'rpi +ps: Albeu, i'll never forgive your playtree patches :) +</p> +</div> <div class="newsentry">