[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] rc2 at the beginning of October

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 01:52:51AM +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:56:53 +0200
> Roberto Togni <rxt at rtogni.it> wrote:
> 
> > rc1 is almost one year old...
> > 
> > What about doing 1.0rc2 at the beginning of October?
> > My proposed plan is to freeze the tarball one week before (last weekend
> > of September), so we can test compile it on as many systems as possible,
> > and release the firs weekend of October.
> > 
> > Agree? Disagree? Any comments on MPlayer status? Known breakages and
> > regressions?
> 
> I agree, but the old mga_vid detection code which got
> removed by Diego and Ivan should be put back before that.

Why?  Checking for the existence of device files is fundamentally
broken.  IMO the hardware-specific vo drivers should be enabled by
default, MPlayer will fall back on the more general but slower ones
after trying them ...

Diego