[MPlayer-users] The future of mplayer
Ketil Z. Malde
ketil at ii.uib.no
Wed Jan 29 14:36:52 CET 2003
Juho Vähä-Herttua <juhovh at iki.fi> writes:
> First of all, the debian guys were right. Your program is not really
> distributable in binary form. First of all it should be possible to
> easily add new codecs to program without recompiling it.
Why? I mean, sure, I agree a pluggable architecture with a generic
interface is a nice concept, but I think it also makes things more
complex. Why couldn't a binary distribution just ship with as many
modules (codecs) as possible? Or, barring that, ship several
different packages with different selections of modules?
> And then mencoder... Can't you just make two separate programs
Personally, since I'm not a developer, I couldn't care less. Let the
developers do what they feel is most efficient!
> Third thing is that you have to cut off some features, it just can't go
> on like this.
I haven't followed the bug reports closely, but my impression is
things are stabilizing nicely.
> still your usability just sucks.
Not sure I agree with that. Having everything (devices, languages,
etc) on a right-click menu is pretty neat, IMHO.
Being able to do simple things simply (ie. mplayer -dvd 1 without any
need to navigate byzantine DVD menus) is also usability.
-kzm
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