vvmarko at... wrote:
That depends to whom you are showing it. Once I was able to convert a hard core Windows-Media-Player-lover to using mplayer --- I installed mplayer and created a shortcut to a script that would execute
mplayer movie.avi -v
in a terminal. The guy was not impressed by playing the movie, but by the wealth of data written to the terminal window! No other player gives so much side information during playback (AFAIK), and for my friend this was mind-boggling. In his own words, "this looks like a player that
knows > exactly what it is doing, and does it very well." The Linux mantra right > out of the mouth of a Windows user! ;-) He eventually switched to
mplayer, and occasionally even uses Linux when he finds it more useful than Windows.
I doubt I will ever get a Mac user impressed by the "wealth of data written to the terminal window". That's exactly what they don't want to see and, considering the matter at hand, rightly so.