-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I use MPlayer, and its companion mencoder, for a great many things -- precisely because it plays so many formats and is so versatile. But I still prefer a GUI for playing DVDs, especially since I don't always know which "chapter" on the DVD corresponds to the actuall program. The ability to easily switch languages and subtitles in the middle of the movie is nice, too...
Gary > As a contributing developer to MPlayer, I thought I should chip in > here in its defense. MPlayer was never meant to have a GUI. It was > added as an afterthought by some contributers to the project. In > fact, by default, MPlayer will not even build the GUI. MPlayer is > designed to be fast, robust, and versitile. This entails: > > - It plays *anything* you throw at it > - It manages to work around badly encoded media without going south > - It minimizes overhead (which is one reason why threads are > vehemently rejected from the code base, and why MPlayerXP was > branched off) > <snip> > > Again, MPlayer is not supposed to have happy colorful candy-like > buttons for you to push, with a weak and inefficient > infrastructure behind it (all too common nowadays with multimedia > apps). Its strengths reside in its raw power and robustness, along > with its extensive library of codecs and filters. > > On a personal note, I prefer ``mplayer -dvd 1'' to launching a GUI > and clicking around at buttons. GUI's are like diapers; with time, > you grow out of them. > > Mike -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0 iQA/AwUBPnigcfEriEoHGxc9EQIWYgCg3KKqeoiZ62mxaiNTnfj1guNIzgMAoPv3 YsBJ3f6EOM3L41OOInhAGS98 =bry8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
