[MPlayer-dev-eng] [QUESTION] Stabilizing MPlayer

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 10:15:36PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> > - Are there other things except those mentioned above needed to stabilize 
> > mplayer ?
> fixing the known bugs?
> heavy testing on mphq samples/ dir ?
> heavy testing by users ? (==release :))

How about making a program to generate files that partially look like
valid movies but with lots of random bytes? That's always a good
empirical way to test security -- throwing random junk at the program
and seeing if it crashes. :)

> we should concentrate on bugs now, and get back the good old rock solid mplayer.
> 
> i'm asking everyday the question on irc 'rc3 today?' but the answer is
> always no, followed by long list of serious bugs... and then i see more bugs
> on -users, so i go watching a film instead... and i find more bugs then. :(

Haha, you just can't escape!

> > And nearly only doing this and not adding soooooooo much features now ...
> 
> we shouldn't add features at all, only exceptions are independent modules,
> like new vo_* or new codec or new demuxer, since they don't affect the rest
> of the code. the other exception is the new libaf, since it's unfinished and
> we should allow it developing.

Agree.


Rich