Re: ximian patches

["R.I.P. Deaddog" <gnome-devel deaddog org>]

On 2002-07-25(Thu) 17:44:02 +0200, Nerijus Baliunas wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 11:28:30 -0400 (EDT) Pavel Roskin <proski gnu org> wrote:
> 
> > > BTW, why my patch about adding mplayer for avi files, etc is still not applied?
> > 
> > There are already associations for avi files.  I don't want to change them 
> > without compelling reasons.
> 
> Of course there are. But xanim does not play most new avi's, including divx,
> while mplayer plays everything and can even use xanim's codecs. gtv is just
> a sample application from smpeg sources, it was probably added because at
> that time there were no other decent players (actually earlier instead of
> gtv commercial mtvp was used). So IMHO these are compelling reasons. Please
> change both avi and mpg to use mplayer.

Yup, I'd agree too that mplayer is one of the best video player out
there, much better than the xanim, gtv etc...

> Regards,
> Nerijus

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