[MPlayer-G2-dev] Re: G2 CLI/GUI

[Balatoni Denes]

Hi!

> > Ok. How are you going to add plugins to g2 without asking/waiting for
> > weeks for somebody to commit your plugin to cvs ? You can make patch or
> > fork mplayer too, but distributing a binary (+ source) is IMHO more
> > flexible and convenient.
>
> Huh? I didn't say anything about plugins being bad. What I said was
> that it's not acceptable to scan/load them all at startup. MPlayer
> MUST only load the stuff specifically requested by the user, so that
> it starts instantly.

I understand that, an indeed this should be possible. However if there is a 
plugin, it has to be dlopened (or something) to tell what parameters it 
excpects - that is if plugins can be added any time. 
Perhaps if a plugin is only opened when it's parameters are queried (and of 
course when it is used)  than everybody will be happy - a cli to mplayer has 
the choice not to query the plugin if it knows the parameters by heart.

> Rich

bye
Denes