From e7990944def9e1f89e803504a3e92dd044d23b6e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: wm4 Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2017 11:36:20 +0200 Subject: README: shorten a section and link to FAQ instead --- README.md | 18 +++--------------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3788181890..ce38279235 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -213,22 +213,10 @@ for ideas on what you could contribute with. ## Relation to MPlayer and mplayer2 +mpv is a fork of MPlayer. Much has changed, and in general, mpv should be +considered a completely new program, rather than a MPlayer drop-in replacement. -mpv is based on mplayer2, which in turn is based on the original MPlayer -(also called mplayer, mplayer-svn, mplayer1). Many changes have been made, -many of which are incompatible or completely changed how the player -behaves. Although there are still many similarities to its ancestors, mpv -should generally be treated as a completely separate program. - -mpv was forked because we wanted to modernize MPlayer. This includes -removing cruft (including features which stopped making sense 10 years ago), -and of course adding modern features. Such huge and intrusive changes made it -infeasible to work directly with MPlayer, which is mostly focused on -preservation, so a fork had to be made. (Actually, mpv is based on mplayer2, -which already started this process of removing cruft.) - -In general, mpv should be considered a completely new program, rather than a -MPlayer drop-in replacement. +For details see [FAQ entry](https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/wiki/FAQ#How_is_mpv_related_to_MPlayer). If you are wondering what's different from mplayer2 and MPlayer, an incomplete and largely unmaintained list of changes is located [here][mplayer-changes]. -- cgit v1.2.3