[MPlayer-dev-eng] GUI status

[Benjamin Zores]

Reimar Döffinger a écrit :
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 07:03:40PM +0200, Benjamin Zores wrote:
>> Ivan Kalvachev a écrit :
>>> The ultimate goal of removing the globals and making subsystems in
>>> hierarchy order, it to isolate the libmplayer from the main.c and
>>> allow removal of the piped slave interface, replacing it with direct
>>> library interface.
>> That's kinda funny.
>> When I'd suggested a year ago or so the idea of turning MPlayer into
>> a real library I was flammed so hot, only hell can do.
>> Not so surprisingly, I was told that the only way to control MPlayer is
>> to use the slave-mode and that things won't change.
> 
> Well, at least I stand by that position. Why?
> 1) Because there are enough media-player libs, I don't think there is a
> real need for yet another one
> 2) slave mode is supposed to work for everyone, whether it is shell
> script or whatever
> 3) it is much easier to use in combination with things like seccomp,
> which IMO is the place where a media-player belongs.

Don't misunderstand me.
I'm no more in favor of rewriting everything for a true lib.
I can live with slave-mode.
But now I'm just seeing Ivan criticizing the only way to currently 
control MPlayer which just make me smile :-)

Ben