[MPlayer-users] playlist suggestion

Joey Parrish joey.parrish at gmail.com
Thu May 3 04:10:28 CEST 2007


On 5/2/07, RC <rcooley at spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:52:34 +0100
> "Robert Parker" <theparkers.mailbox at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read that thread, seems to me most people (3 vs 1 ) agreed in
> > principle that it should be done in mplayer and not in a plugin.
>
> Certainly not an accurate survey...
>
> > Seamless handling of media play lists seems to be naturally within the
> > scope of a media player and not another program.
>
> It's all fine and good to say what would be preferable to users, but
> it's quite another to find someone willing to put in the time and
> effort to write a robust playlist demuxer for MPlayer, that won't become
> a security vulnerability.

I'm willing to write the code.  The hard part is getting patches
reviewed and accepted.  It's can be difficult to get the MPlayer core
developers to reach a consensus on a patch.  But that just adds to the
feeling of accomplishment when you finally get something committed.
"I just climbed -dev-Everest!"

--Joey



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