[Ffmpeg-devel] flames

[Ismail Dönmez]

On Sunday 15 April 2007 23:36:10 Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> Hi
>
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 04:14:32PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 15, 2007 at 11:07:59PM +0300, Ismail D?nmez wrote:
> > > Well imho also regressions are worrisome, recently (at least for me)
> > > frame rate detection and also audio bitrate detection got worse. Fixing
> > > regressions
>
> did you submit bugreports about these?

Yes I did (for video bitrate problem) 
http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-devel/2007-March/026191.html

> > > would be a priority. On the other hand a fork might just make the whole
> > > situation worse (unlike X.org fork from XFree86 where all-1 developers
> > > were involved in the fork which is not the case here).
> >
> > The last thing a fork would do is fix regressions, I suspect... If
> > there are regressions, they need to be fixed, and people (Michael
> > included) need to be more careful about committing code without
> > thinking about it thoroughly and understanding it.
>
> the framerate detection code is pure heuristic guessing its proofable
> not possible to find the correct base framerate based from the first
> few frames
> iam puzzled why so many people complain about it

Because MPlayer seems to get it right but now audio bitrate problems show up 
too, "who cares about the bitrate?" is not the best answer after you have 
uploaded ~300mb just for a bugreport :)


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what the heck are you still doing here?

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