[Mplayer-dev-eng] plans ?

[Felix Bünemann]

Hello Arpi,

Wednesday, July 11, 2001, 8:04:13 PM, you wrote:

A> Hi,

>> >What are the plans for the 0.18 release ?
>> >I thought it was to have it out as soon as possible.
>> >But at the moment it looks like more and more new features get in.
>> >An example is the ffmpeg divx codec. I like it very much but
>> >I would have waited for the next release.
>> >
>> Yes, since Arpi have added libavcodec - release should be
>> delayed. I plan to add some optimizations to new stuff.
A> Yes, I did it. And also added your mp3 optim stuff before ;)
A> SO we can't stop adding good stuff. We can't do freeze...
hmmm, we can, we only do bugfixes then - big bugfixes =)

A> so we can't do stable releases. There are 0.18preX for users
A> who don't like cvs.

>> They should be tested. I guess that 0.18-pre.5 must
>> have enabled ffmepg-divx codec by default for better
>> testing.
A> yes. btw afaik 0.18pre5 is already out.

A> i think we should add 2 different codecs.conf, one for
A> win32 codecs preferred, one for native codecs.
A> users can choose what do they want.
maybe some example line for afm and vfm in example.conf are enough.

>> >I know I'm not a developer. And I also don't want to 
>> >sound offensive but I think it's time for a new release
>> >even if that means to drop some nice features for the next
>> >release.
>> Simply next release should be renamed to 0.18-DelayCounter, IMHO ;)
A> agree. it was planned before, but docs has still bugcounter
hmm, what about skip 0.18 as stable release and bring out something
else, let's say 0.20 or so as DelayCounter ...


A> A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

A> --
A> mailto:arpi at thot.banki.hu
A> http://esp-team.scene.hu


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 Felix                            mailto:atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net



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