[Gllug] Re: Home watching of my DVDs fxxx!ed :-)

Andrew Halliwell ah at gnd.com
Mon Jan 19 11:13:44 UTC 2004


And verily, didst Tethys announce to the hordes:
> 
> 
> "Chanka A. Perera" writes:
> 
> >try mplayer the best media player on the planet ;-)
> 
> If that's true, then we have serious problems. The user interface sucks.
> I mean really, *really* sucks. Plus it doesn't support anywhere near as
> many codecs as it needs to. Yes, you can get the Windows codecs working
> on IA32, but that's no use for those of us using other architectures.

Tell that to the morons who continue to use proprietory codecs when good,
open ones are available.

Even the BBC is guilty, mplayer can't stream their broadcasts.
(I've not managed it anyway, still stuck with realplayer)

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