[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Correct inttypes.h emulation for VisualStudio

Luca Barbato lu_zero
Sun Dec 3 23:51:30 CET 2006


Alexander Chemeris wrote:

> You will be surprised, but the best (IMO) video codec set for Windows
> is ffdshow.
> which (surprise again!) is based on FFMpeg.

I'll cut the tirade about open source volunteers vs closed source
paypawns...

> 
> One point you've missed here: people are working on supporting FFMpeg
> on Windows. They spend their time for this, and may be not less then you
> do.

Since they spend that time supporting a certain operating system they
could either lobby the upstream (MSFT) to be less idiotic or just help
those are reproducing the os they like in more moldable shape (reactos?).

> Do you think it is a good behaviour to discard all this work?

... I don't think using/supporting windows is a good behaviour since it
 has been _PROVEN_ broken beyond repair many times...

lu

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