mplayer instead of xine?

[Greg Meyer]

On Thursday 12 July 2007, Jim Capozzoli wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> I've only been using amarok for a few weeks now, but I enjoy it much
> more then any other media player I've ever used.  However, I was
> wondering, why use the xine engine in amarok instead of mplayer?  Is
> it for some reason not possible?  Is anybody working on a sort of
> plugin to make amarok use mplayer for playback rather then xine?
> Thanks.  I'm also not subscribed to the list, so Cc me if you could...

What is it about mplayer that in your opinion makes it superior over xine?  I 
think it is impossible because mplayer is not structured as a library that 
can be used by other programs, whereas xine is structured that way.

-- 
Greg