[MPlayer-dev-eng] 0.90 release plans and others

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Mon Jan 20 13:21:52 CET 2003


Hi,

> imho both projects have advantages and disadvantages. 
> A big advantage of mplayer for sure is its smaller mem needs - i can't
> use xine on my pda eg. :)
> imho merging the good parts from both projects would be a nice thing -
> there would be a  player which is nice modular, supports every format, is fast 
> and consumes little mem. maybe it's a bit naive/utopistic :)
no, it's just dreaming :)

> btw: what I always hear being said is that gcc3.2 optimizes better than gcc 
> 2.95 actually - don't know which is true

gcc 3.x optimizes better, results in a few % (not enough to worth, imho)
faster c code, but compiling time is twice as 2.9x and gcc 3.x has tons of
silly bugs, often miscompiles etc.


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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