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<appendix id="mailinglists">
<title>Mailing lists</title>
<para>
There are some public mailing lists on <application>MPlayer</application>. Unless
explicitly stated otherwise the language of these lists is <emphasis role="bold">English</emphasis>.
Please do not send messages in other languages or HTML mail! Message size limit
is 80k. If you have something bigger put it up for download somewhere. Click the
links to subscribe. On the mailing lists, the same rules about writing and quoting
apply as on usenet. Please follow them, it makes the life of those who read your
mails a lot easier. If you do not know them please read
<ulink url="http://learn.to/edit_messages">HOWTO edit messages</ulink> or (if you
are in a hurry) <ulink url="http://www.xs4all.nl/~hanb/documents/quotingguide.html">Quoting HOWTO</ulink>.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> announce list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce"/>
List for <application>MPlayer</application> announcements.
Subscribe here if you want to get announcements about new features.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> developers list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng"/>
This list is about <application>MPlayer</application> development!
Talking about interface/API changes, new libraries, code optimization,
configure changes is ontopic here. Send patches but not bug reports,
user questions, feature requests or flames here to keep the list traffic low.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> DOCS list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-docs"/>
This list is about <application>MPlayer</application> documentation
and translation discussions.
Documentation and homepage related CVS logs are also sent here.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> users list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-users"/>
  <itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
  Send bug reports here after reading the <link linkend="bugs">Known Bugs</link>
  and <link linkend="bugreports">bug reporting</link> section).
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
  Send feature requests here (after reading the <emphasis role="bold">whole
  documentation</emphasis>).
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
  Send user questions here (after reading the <emphasis role="bold">whole
  documentation</emphasis>).
  </para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> Hungarian users list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-felhasznalok"/>
  <itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
  Hungarian language list
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
  Topic? We'll see about it... mostly flame and RTFM questions up to now :(
  </para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> &amp; Matrox G200/G400/G450/G550 users:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-matrox"/>
Matrox related questions like
  <itemizedlist>
  <listitem><para>
  things about mga_vid
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
  Matrox's official beta drivers (for X 4.x.x)
  </para></listitem>
  <listitem><para>
  matroxfb-TVout stuff
  </para></listitem>
  </itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> &amp; DVB card users:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dvb"/>
Things related to the hardware decoder card called DVB (not <emphasis role="bold">DXR3</emphasis>!).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> CVS-log:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog"/>
All changes in <application>MPlayer</application> code are automatically
sent to this list. Only questions about these changes belong here
(if you do not understand why a change is required or you have a better
fix or you have noticed a possible bug/problem in the commit).
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> Cygwin-porting list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin"/>
List for discussion about <application>MPlayer's</application>
<application>Cygwin</application> and <application>MinGW</application> port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> OS/2-porting list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2"/>
List for discussion about <application>MPlayer's</application> OS/2 port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
<application>MPlayer</application> Weekly News' editors and translators list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-mwn"/>
List for discussion about the Weekly News releases.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<note><para>
You can reach the searchable mailing list archives at
<ulink url="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/cgi-bin/htsearch"/>.
</para></note>
</para>
</appendix>