[MPlayer-dev-eng] poll idea (and the results will be useful for packagers)

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 12:21, Paul TT wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:29:03 +0100
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
> 
> > Here's an idea: let's make a poll where users can mark compile-time
> > selectable MPlayer features that they use, i.e. VOs, AOs and
> additional
> > features like Theora, DTS, menu, LIVE555 etc.
> > 
> > Rationale: after some discussion with different package maintainers
> > it seems most of them enable everything they can. While I disagree
> > with this, I find the feature set we've agreed on a bit limited.
> > For example, I compile MPlayer with DTS and LIVE555 for myself, which
> > I guess makes me a bit of a hypocrite. ;)
> > 
> > So the point of the poll would be to see what should be enabled by
> > default in the official binary packages.
> > 
> > Obviously the poll would need to be web-based for greater
> accessibility.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> the idea could be good, but IMHO is a nonsense poll.

Not from my standpoint.

> any person i know compile mplayer just to have it running with
> everything they have, so up to every lib and codec and what you want
> possible.

That's because we usually tell people to do so.

> then, or mplayer will support runtime libraary_and_the_like detection or
> it will depend by the user. dot.
> it's hellish to decide exactly what to compile in or not...

I know. ;)

> is not official thinking about mplayer bin packs that they are not
> worth of being there??? ;-)

Well, not anymore, I'd say.

> i know ther are eround a lot of mplayer packages, but i think it's more
> a problem with the builder of that pakcage than a problem for us poor
> developers......

This is primarily for the benefit of my official packages.

R.

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