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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>
MPlayer announce list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-announce"/>
List for MPlayer announcements. Subscribe here if you want to get
announcements about new features.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
MPlayer developers list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-dev-eng"/>
This list is about MPlayer 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>
MPlayer 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 section</link>).
  </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>
MPlayer 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>
MPlayer &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>
MPlayer &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>
MPlayer CVS-log:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cvslog"/>
All changes in MPlayer 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>
MPlayer Cygwin-porting list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-cygwin"/>
List for discussion about MPlayer's Cygwin port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
MPlayer OS/2-porting list:
<ulink url="http://mplayerhq.hu/mailman/listinfo/mplayer-os2"/>
List for discussion about MPlayer's OS/2 port.
</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>
MPlayer 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>