[MPlayer-users] Re: [Mplayer-advusers] Stop time.

[Dmitry Baryshkov]

Hello,
Nico wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
>
> Alban Bedel wrote:
>
>> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read 
>> DOCS/bugreports.html]
>> Hi Konstantinos Karydas,
>>
>> on Mon, 13 Oct 2003 16:23:35 +0300 you wrote:
>>
>>  
>>
>>> That's not true, that nobody ever needed the stop function. There are
>>> many people from time to time wondering and/or complaining why there is
>>> no stop function in mplayer (something like -endpos in mencoder). I
>>> think the most reasonable and wise thing to do would be the mplayer
>>> people to consider implementing such a function for the new MPlayer
>>> release, say"MPlayer-1.0pre3". They would receive many "thank you" and
>>> "thank God" I believe.
>>>   
>>
>> I think that you fail to see where the problem is. None of the devs
>> implemented it until now beside some user request. This show that
>> probably none of them is intersted in writing that.
>> However if someone send a proper patch i see no reason why it should
>> be refused.
>>
>> This is a recurent problem. Most ppl seems to think devs will implement
>> what the users of their program want. But this is free software, it's
>> made by ppl on their free time. So these ppl write what they want,
>> not what others want !!! And the users ? They should just send good
>> bug reports ;)
>>
>>     Albeu
>>
> and possibly good patches, too, right?

Then they aren't users any more (advusers or even devs :)
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With best wishes
Dmitry Baryshkov