The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy (known as A'rpi/Astral in the demoscene), started the project because he was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999.
The original author, Hungarian Árpád Gereöffy (known as A'rpi/Astral in the demoscene), was soon joined by many other programmers. The project was started because A'rpi was unable to find any satisfactory video players for Linux after XAnim stopped development in 1999.