[FFmpeg-devel] ffplay.c Marton Balint - improve desing (without adding features) until looks good

[Juan Manuel Borges Caño]

First, I decided to use your library in some projects because simply you
don't have a nearl competitor with this quality.
http://code.google.com/p/openmedialibrary and
http://code.google.com/p/openalextensions .

With that knowledge i have a concern, documentation was lacking everywhere,
and even not that is enough, ffplay.c could have saved all it, but the code
is so messily cluttered with features hacked together without desgin
concerns in mind, that the look was unusable out of a copy/paste and use,
which could not be because i'm not using the sdl library. If the desgin of
ffplay.c were made clear it would be a better reference documentation and
become more plausible to reuse some code and/or learn from it.

Perhaps you don't get that feeling, but from what i've seen, it is so
cluttered that makes 10x difficult to follow. Though i know your library is
very powerful and haves a lot of features.

To summarize, like talking programming design course, improve the coding
design of the program and/or even start giving him some love and do an
ffplay folder so the code starts to split and grow, and even you support
more backends like opengl/openal yourself, or framebuffer even. If that
become unusable you would need to almost do that in the docs, so... 2 for 1

Nice work, don't stop it.

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Juan Manuel Borges Caño