[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: MPlayer G2 (vlindos)

[Gábor Lénárt]

On Mon, Mar 31, 2003 at 06:23:17PM +0100, Balatoni Denes wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Another advantage of modularization is that 3rd parties can write plugins,
> and can distribute them separately in a convenient form (ie. not a patch)- no 
> need to beg here for inclusion in cvs. 

Yes, but we should declare here that we don't want 'binary only' modules
for mplayer ... It's quite annoying not to be able to solve problems
and tracking bugs just because we haven't got ANY source ...
And of course binary level API compatibility is quite hard question ...



> 
> > Of course further modulatization can be done within the "core", like
> > streaming, demuxing, decoding ... but care should be taken not to overuse
> > the whole concept to a level, when compilation is almost impossible ;-) and
> > performance is reduced due to the heavy use of data transfer between layers
> > or like ...
> >
> > - Gábor (larta'H)
> 
> bye
> Denes
> 
> 
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- Gábor (larta'H)