Ten years of MPlayer | Linux Today

Ten years of MPlayer

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 12, 2010

“It was exactly 10 years ago, that I’ve released first MPlayer
version, v0.01:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/old_stuff/releases/MPlay… Yes,
f*cking 10 years!!!! Nov 11, 2000… Time goes on so fast…

“I want to thank you all for the contributions, patches, bugs,
docs, testing etc.

“Especially Michael Niedermayer, Fabrice Bellard and Nick
Kurshev, who made it to be the best & fastest open-source
player!”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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