On 20 Mar 2002, Ronald Bultje wrote: > that's exactly what gstreamer's core is! But I'm not expecting the > mplayer/cinelerra/xine developpers to stop developping. But they need to > convert their whole application over from their own backend to our > backend, and that takes long. Probably, they don't want to. That's exactly the problem, "They need to convert their whole application over ... to our backend." They probably think you should convert all your plugins over to their backend. Obviously cooperation is impossible when you have diametrically opposed positions like this.