[FFmpeg-devel] ffplay.c Marton Balint - improve desing (without adding features) until looks good

[Paul B Mahol]

On 7/24/12, Juan Manuel Borges Cano <juanmabcmail at gmail.com> wrote:
> First, I decided to use your library in some projects because simply you
> don't have a nearl competitor with this quality.
> http://code.google.com/p/openmedialibrary and
> http://code.google.com/p/openalextensions .
>
> With that knowledge i have a concern, documentation was lacking everywhere,
> and even not that is enough, ffplay.c could have saved all it, but the code
> is so messily cluttered with features hacked together without desgin
> concerns in mind, that the look was unusable out of a copy/paste and use,
> which could not be because i'm not using the sdl library. If the desgin of
> ffplay.c were made clear it would be a better reference documentation and
> become more plausible to reuse some code and/or learn from it.
>
> Perhaps you don't get that feeling, but from what i've seen, it is so
> cluttered that makes 10x difficult to follow. Though i know your library is
> very powerful and haves a lot of features.
>
> To summarize, like talking programming design course, improve the coding
> design of the program and/or even start giving him some love and do an
> ffplay folder so the code starts to split and grow, and even you support
> more backends like opengl/openal yourself, or framebuffer even. If that
> become unusable you would need to almost do that in the docs, so... 2 for 1

And all that for free?