Remove history chapter; it is outdated and of little practical value.

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 &faq.xml;
 &bugreports.xml;
 &skin.xml;
-&history.xml;
diff --git a/DOCS/xml/en/history.xml b/DOCS/xml/en/history.xml
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-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
-<!-- $Revision$ -->
-<appendix id="history">
-<title>History</title>
-
-<blockquote><para>
-This began a year ago...  I have tried lots of players under Linux
-(<application>mtv</application>, <application>xmps</application>,
-<application>dvdview</application>, <application>livid/oms</application>,
-<application>videolan</application>, <application>xine</application>,
-<application>xanim</application>, <application>avifile</application>,
-<application>xmmp</application>) but they all have some problem. Mostly with
-special files or with audio/video sync. Most of them are unable to play both
-MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and AVI (DivX) files. Many players have image quality or speed
-problems too. So I've decided to write/modify one...
-</para></blockquote><para>A'rpi, 2001</para>
-
-<itemizedlist>
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.1-v0.3</emphasis>: Sep 22-25, 2000
-</para>
-<para>
-The first try, hacked together in a half hour!  I've used libmpeg3
-from <ulink url="http://www.heroinewarrior.com"/> up to the version 0.3, but
-there were image quality and speed problems with it.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.5-v0.87</emphasis>: Sep 28-Oct 20, 2000
-</para>
-<para>
-MPEG codec replaced with DVDview by Dirk Farin, it was a
-great stuff, but it was slow and was written in C++ (A'rpi hates C++!!!)
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>mpg12play</application> v0.9-v0.95pre5</emphasis>: Oct 21-Nov 2, 2000
-</para>
-<para>
-MPEG codec was libmpeg2 (mpeg2dec) by Aaron Holtzman and
-Michel Lespinasse.  It's great, optimized very fast C code with perfect
-image quality and 100% MPEG standard conformance.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.3-v0.9</emphasis>: Nov 18-Dec 4, 2000
-</para>
-<para>
-It was a pack of two programs: mpg12play v0.95pre6 and my
-new simple AVI player 'avip' based on avifile's Win32 DLL loader.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.10</emphasis>: Jan 1, 2001
-</para>
-<para>The MPEG and AVI player in a single binary!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.11pre series</emphasis>:
-</para>
-<para>
-Some new developers joined and since 0.11 the <application>MPlayer</application>
-project is a team-work! Added ASF file support, and OpenDivX
-(see <ulink url="http://www.projectmayo.com"/>) en/decoding.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> v0.17a "The IdegCounter"</emphasis>: Apr 27, 2001
-</para>
-<para>
-The release version of the 0.11pre after 4 months of heavy
-development!  Try it, and be amazed! Thousands of new features added...
-and of course old code was improved too, bugs removed etc.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.18 "The BugCounter"</emphasis>: Jul 9, 2001
-</para>
-<para>
-2 months since 0.17 and here's a new release.. Completed ASF
-support, more subtitle formats, introduced libao (similar to libvo but to
-audio), even more stable than ever, and so on. It's a MUST!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.50 "The Faszom(C)ounter"</emphasis>: Oct 8, 2001
-</para>
-<para>
-Hmm. Release again. Tons of new features, beta GUI version,
-bugs fixed, new vo and ao drivers, ported to many systems, including
-open source DivX codecs and much more. Try it!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.60 "The RTFMCounter"</emphasis>: Jan 3, 2002
-</para>
-<para>
-MOV/VIVO/RM/FLI/NUV file formats support, native CRAM, Cinepak,
-ADPCM codecs, and support for XAnim's binary codecs; DVD subtitles support,
-first release of <application>MEncoder</application>, TV grabbing, cache,
-liba52, countless fixes.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90pre10 "The BirthdayCounter"</emphasis> Nov 11, 2002
-</para>
-<para>
-Although this is not a release, I am going to mention it because it
-came out 2 years after <application>MPlayer</application> v0.01.
-Happy birthday, <application>MPlayer</application>!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90rc1 "The CodecCounter"</emphasis> Dec 7, 2002
-</para>
-<para>
-Again not a release, but after adding Sorenson 3 (QuickTime)
-and Windows Media 9 support, <application>MPlayer</application> is the
-world's first movie player with support for all known video formats!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.90 "The CounterCounter"</emphasis> Apr 6, 2003
-</para>
-<para>
-After more than 1 year, we finally concluded that the code was indeed
-stable again, and ready to be published as a release. Unfortunately we
-forgot even to increase the version number, and other annoying bugs went
-in, so get ready for...
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 0.91</emphasis> Aug 13, 2003
-</para>
-<para>
-The above mentioned and lot of other bugs have been fixed.
-This is the latest stable version.
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 1.0pre1 "Development on the beach"</emphasis> Sep 1, 2003
-</para>
-<para>
-Although this is not a stable release, I am going to mention it because it is
-the first pre version of the 1.0 series of <application>MPlayer</application>
-and it is intended to help the <emphasis>big bug hunting party</emphasis>.
-This is a huge step forward!
-</para>
-</listitem>
-
-<listitem>
-<para>
-<emphasis role="bold"><application>MPlayer</application> 1.0</emphasis> date yet unknown
-</para>
-</listitem>
-</itemizedlist>
-</appendix>