[MPlayer-cvslog] r23805 - trunk/configure

[Uoti Urpala]

On Wed, 2007-07-18 at 18:17 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> No, the vo drivers are ordered by speed.  This has been done on purpose.
> Trust me, I was there back in the days.

I don't see what particularly relevant experience you could have. How
much better mga_vid works on those cards to which it is applicable?
Maybe it does but as long as it requires creating a special device
configuring MPlayer too should not be too much to ask. How large a
portion of users would benefit from it? That kind of information doesn't
stay valid over time.

> > >   If you dislike the error, disable the driver..
> > 
> > You mean compiling MPlayer with --disable-mga? Do you really think it's
> > acceptable to have MPlayer print 4 lines of nonsense errors by default,
> > and anyone who doesn't want that should change build options manually?
> 
> Absolutely.  This is how all of the binary packages work.

Seems silly to me. Even if there was a good reason to always try mga_vid
first (which I don't think there is) then it would still at least make
sense to make it go out of the way quietly when it won't work.