On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 09:51, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Stupid question: Why can't you use all the wonderful code in MPlayer?
Forgot to answer this one question specifically: we can't because
mplayer's codebase is honestly a piece of crap ("it doesn't compile
under gcc-2.96/3.0, so let's blame the gcc-people") and because their
backend is totally different from ours. We use external libraries (like
avifile) as much as possible but since mplayer isn't a library in any
form, so we can't use it. We'd appreciate all their help, but we'd
rather write clean code then spend hours trying to understand their
code, rewrite it to look good, rewrite it again to work with out
backend, etc... That's just not a good idea. It's much easier to use
avifile for that (which is what we currently do).
Ronald
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