[MPlayer-users] mplayer in slave mode

[Vladimir Mosgalin]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Adam Rice wrote:

AR>[Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read
AR>DOCS/bugreports.html] Quoting Corey Hickey (bugfood-ml at fatooh.org):
AR>> Actually, 0.92 is really old, and considered obsolete as far as any
AR>> development is concerned. Try out 1.0pre3 or the latest CVS and see
AR>> if your problem still exists.
AR>
AR>Then why is it still on the website? 1.0pre3 is clearly superior to
AR>0.92, and its one showstopper bug has already been fixed. Why not
AR>call it 1.0 and then bring out 1.1 in a month or so based on current
AR>CVS? Here, I'll even write you a press release:

Kewl! That will make linux distributions which still have mplayer 0.92
as "latest stable" version forget about it and go on with 1.0...
I guess that's the main reason why people use 0.92.

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Vladimir