My views on and dealings with MPlayer are becoming quite a saga, or at least a blog category. I now have something to report after emailing the webmaster@ address I found on their website, but (as perhaps I should have guessed given my previous criticism of the project) communicating with them turned out to be rather difficult. To start with, I never got an email in reply, and had to go into the their IRC channel to get a response, which may innocently be explained by a lack of clearly defined roles in the project. Also, I am prepared to admit that I am not without my own failings, for instance accepting, as this post will explain, that PHP was the wrong language to choose to write the Atomise script in. If I had checked a little harder into the project, like their SVN repository, I may have found the Makefile-based system they use to generate the website (as opposed to a system using files written in a web scripting language). I don’t think that this oversight on my part, however, is as unacceptable as the fact that the first reply I got in the #mplayer channel was a death threat.
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