[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Dynamic plugins loading

[Felipe Contreras]

On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 9:18 PM, Ronald S. Bultje <rsbultje at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Felipe Contreras
> <felipe.contreras at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The mainstream distributions are:
>> ?1. Ubuntu
>> ?2. Fedora
>> ?3. Mint
>> ?4. OpenSUSE
>> ?5. Debian
>
> Your statistics is a tracker of fanboys clicking "me too" buttons.
> Real stats come from e.g. daily data-usage over large ranges of
> websites, e.g. NetApplications. See
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10
> for a quick overview, also see
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=8
>
> Details:
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Linux
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Windows
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Mac
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Android
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=iOS
> http://www.netmarketshare.com/report.aspx?qprid=9&qpcustom=Blackberry
>
> Quick breakdown:
> Windows is 91%
> Mac is 5%
> iOS (iPad/iPhone) is 1.25%
> Linux - for all of the above distributions together - is 0.86%, and going down
> Android is 0.27%
> Blackberry is 0.10%
> (all mobiles are going up)

We were talking about *linux* distributions.

> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/browser-market-share.aspx?qprid=0
>
> Chrome is fine with FFmpeg and has a market share tenfold of all Linux together.

Nobody said otherwise.

> http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
>
> VLC is fine with FFmpeg and had 177 million downloads since their 1.0 release.

Nobody said otherwise.

> Fedora 13 has 2.5M users according to Fedora. Ubuntu claims 12M users.
> Not very much. Fantastic market share indeed. Let's all roll over and
> play dead for Fedora.

So what you are saying is: "we don't care about linux". Ok, that's good to know.

-- 
Felipe Contreras