But yes, in a 100% free society MS is at liberty to do what they like. However we don’t allow petty theft, and we shouldn’t allow companies with huge market share to use that market share to give them an uncompetitive advantage in new markets.

The best way out is to vote with your money. Or spread information about what’s wrong with IE/MSN Search/Windows. Legal restrictions are just not in the right spirit of the Free Movement, IMO.

This is disingenious, one man cannot have the same effect as a huge corporation like MS. Even through word-of-mouth protest I could not hope to change this particular issue in time. This is why it necessary for our legal systems to have power to prevent such things.

Anyway your method implies people will agree with me. People won’t. People don’t know what’s best for them generally, if they did we wouldn’t need a Government, anarchy would work.

The best way out is to vote with your money. Or spread information about what’s wrong with IE/MSN Search/Windows. Legal restrictions are just not in the right spirit of the Free Movement, IMO.

The DVD button one is tricky to fix, as xine doesn’t tell me about DVD navigation, hence the bug, which I meant to try to fix, but alas, lack inspiration yet. The rest are excellent reports that I will try hard to ammend.

*About the Menu Toggle button: it changes when you push it. But when you exit the menu (by selecting one of its items), the button doesn’t change. So, the change in the aspect of the button is useless, because it can be toggled or untoggled in any situation. I think the button should be automatically untoggled when the user exits the menu.

*Also, it seems the “record” button is buggy. When I push it, the console says: input_rip: error opening file /home/mxcl/Desktop/ (and it says the file doesn’t exist, maybe because my user is not mxcl :-)). Also, there’s a
message (in codeine) saying “saving file to ~/Pelicula” and playback stops. Then I push the “play” button and the “Play Media” window pops up.

*The “Media Information” window is much bigger than the screen (1024×768 resolution).

*Opening a VCD shows a window saying: “There is no input plugin that can read: .” Console says: “xine: cannot find input plugin for MRL [vcd:/]“. But Xine-ui works fine!

*Right click when paused tells the user that the “space” shortcut will resume the playback. But while playing a file, there’s no such indication that “space” will pause the playback.

*The README says “See the section PLANNED FEATURES below”, but there’s no such section :-).

And some random comments/thoughts:

*I’ve seen you said: “xine supports OGM, but I believe that OGM is just a container that supports any codec. xine probably supports MKV as well. Basically, it depends on xine-lib.”

Well, I’ve tested some OGM and MKV files. Codeine seems to work fine with multiple audio/subtile OGM streams (just as it does with DVDs), but seems to _sometimes_ have problems with Matroska subtitles (xine-ui works fine).

For example, with this sample, the subtitles entry is disabled:
http://www.matroska.org/samples/matrix/Matrix.Reloaded.Trailer-640×346-XviD-1.0beta2-HE_AAC_subtitled.mkv

Of course, chapters won’t work, as they don’t work in DVDs (I know it’s planned for 1.1).

*Same shortcut for record and for menu toggle is quite weird IMHO.

*”Reset video scale” option doesn’t exist in fullscreen mode. Also, the ‘=’ shortcut doesn’t work. Is there a reason for it?

Thanks!

FFS, it’s as though you didn’t read anything I wrote.

I’m willing to bet you my salary Google would pay MS to be the default in IE if they could. There’s no way in hell MS would offer them a price that anyone could afford.

@Lee Very easy? No. It’s possible, but certainly not very easy.

@superstoned Google _can_ pay microsoft. They just choose not to. And if windows should come without a browser, then OS X should too right? And all the linux distros?