[MPlayer-G2-dev] the awakening, license changes and so on...

[Joey Parrish]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 03:41:16PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> LICENSE CHANGE:
> the code released in g2 peview47 is mostly under gpl. it means
> we need to change license, with the agreement of authors. so,
> if you are author of some code in g2, and you disagree with the
> lgpl, tell us asap, so we can replace your code.
> note, that most of the code in g2 core is written by me, or being
> copied/inherited from g1.
> about plugins/filters: i want the basic ones (like swscaler,
> crop/expand, libavcodec, vo_x11 etc) be lgpl too, so they can
> be included in core. The rest (like Rich's filters) may be external
> gpl plugins, unless their authors accepts lgpl.

I would love to work on G2.  I've been avoiding it due to lack stable
APIs for certain things.  All my (decent) code I'll port and happily
declare LGPL.  (The stuff I wrote that sucks, I'll rewrite. :)

I'd also really enjoy porting VOs and a filter or two.

> VO: the x11_helper stuff needs to be designed better, Beastd and Faust3
>     promised some help me, and Koth too in the past.
>     the driver api (buffer allocation, display etc) stuff is ok imho.
>     also we should check how to handle "coupled drivers", like
>     x11+vidix, x11+mga, fbdev+tdfx, vesa+vidix etc.
>     either the parent driver can handle it, or the vf_vo wrapper can.
>     both has advs and disadvs.

So, should I wait a bit before I start hacking vo drivers?

> VF: i plan to use my code from pre47, and don't wait for Rich's
>     vaporware. and as Rich will probably refuse LGPL anyway,
>     it should not be a problem :)

Or we could have his filter layer as a GPL plugin to the current one.
Maybe some day we'll have vf_rich?  :)

> OSD: i've made some drafts and code, have to check it again.

I don't know what OSD drafts are like, but I'd like to suggest that osd
modes be user-defined with a formatting string like printf or strftime.
We can put default config entries for the modes as they are now in G1.

> The goal for g2 is still the same: make it usable as soon as possible.
> In short: no new from-scratch overcomplicated apis, and try to keep
> some backward compatibility with g1, so plugins can be ported easily.
> Think g2 is a cleaned up, extended g1, and not a new player/editor with
> ultimate features.

We already have the ultimate player (relatively).  :)

--Joey

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