MPlayer Is Getting Closer To Version 1.0 Too

[Joe Sixpack]

Well yes and no, while mplayer has proven to be stable in most situations it is still their development crew marking the releases as a "Release Candidate".

That's because they're stuck in 2003 where only geeks use Linux and everyone accepted using betas and CVS as the norm. Realistically, MPlayer CVS has been faster and more stable than xine and VLC for years now. they should be at version 1.7 at the least.

[deanjo]

"1.0" really means nothing to the MPlayer dev team. It's just a number. The 1.0 release is for people like you (Michael) who think 1.0 is somehow magical and don't know that some teams like to count from 0, not from 1.

MPlayer has been stable for years. It's not the "1.0" that will make it so.

Well yes and no, while mplayer has proven to be stable in most situations it is still their development crew marking the releases as a "Release Candidate".

[cl333r]

At this pace the final release will certainly make it out before 2020!

[snuwoods]

plus other upcoming breakthroughs like Valve's Steam / Source Engine for Linux,

My suspicion is that it will be released in conjunction with or in close proximity to the release date of Portal 2. The date is actually near the anniversary of the Mac client release.

[sirdilznik]

It all makes sense now

It all makes sense and the Mayans were right. Guns n Roses actually release Chinese Democracy. Duke Nukem Forever gets a firm release date. The Enlightenment libraries get a 1.0 release. Ke$ha is somehow insanely popular and successful. These are clearly all signs of the coming apocalypse. MPlayer will obviously reach the 1.0 "stable" release on December 21st 2012, probably along with HURD too.

Well nothing left to do but start up a doomsday cult. Of course I'll make myself the leader so I get to have sex with all the female members before we all drink the Kool Aid, ditch our physical husks which are shackling us, release our energy forms, and hitch a ride with some aliens on a comet, or whatever.

[RealNC]

"1.0" really means nothing to the MPlayer dev team. It's just a number. The 1.0 release is for people like you (Michael) who think 1.0 is somehow magical and don't know that some teams like to count from 0, not from 1.

MPlayer has been stable for years. It's not the "1.0" that will make it so.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: MPlayer Is Getting Closer To Version 1.0 Too

Version 1.0 of the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries was released just hours ago after being in development for a long while. It surprised a number of people that EFL finally hit version 1.0, but here's another surprise: MPlayer is getting closer to version 1.0 too...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=OTA1OA