[MPlayer-cvslog] Request for inclusion of a small utility into Mplayer.

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:23:28AM +0200, Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> 
> On 9/18/06, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> >On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 10:26:26AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >> This is the wrong mailing list for sending contributions, next time, use
> >> mplayer-dev-eng.
> >>
> >> On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 01:05:29PM +0530, Timmu wrote:
> >> > Hi, I have written a small utility called "c4cc" using GTK+-2.0 to 
> >change the
> >> > FourCC code in AVI files. I hope it finds a place in MPlayer/TOOLS/
> >> > directory. Please download the attachment to see it.
> >>
> >> This tool is not MPlayer-specific in any way, so it does not belong in
> >> the MPlayer source tree.
> >
> >Aren't there other tools which are not MPlayer-specific in TOOLS?
> 
> Indeed. There are tools to compare 2 sets of idependant frames and
> compute the PSNR, which do not depend on MPlayer.
> There's a tool to change the timebase of vobsubs...
> etc..., etc..

IMO TOOLS/ should be restricted to MPlayer-specific stuff, otherwise we
can add anything there.

And I guess it's time to for a cleanup in TOOLS/ ...

Diego