> Most people just don't cooperate, for any unknown reason. Let it be, > make sure at least the people who *are* interested in cooperation get > together and combine efforts. But it's opensource, we can't force > everyone. Gstreamer has a group of people working on a recorder, player, > editor etc, each of these people is willing to give up the one minute of > fame for his 1-man-project for a greater good - getting *real* good > applications for linux to make linux a true multimedia platform. I blame ESR and his egoboo^Wullshit 8) To be fair though there is a lot of co-operation going on. Xine really came about from OMS because OMS had tried to be to clever and stagnated. OMS was a prototype and eventually shared the fate of all prototypes, planned as or otherwise. Ogle's navigation has been put into Xine, ffmpeg has been used within Xine and so forth