[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpdemux demux_roq.c,1.4,1.5

[Mike Melanson]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Arpi wrote:

> sorry i have no time for such games now
> who the hell needs to play those oh-so-popular film files?

	Try to remember that it's all a matter of perspective. There's a
set of features you care about and a set of features I care about. For
example, who gives a sniff about playing DVDs with MPlayer? I sure
don't; I don't even own any DVDs. Trust me, there's still an audience for
the FILM files.

> i said, when i got tiem i'll check it. no time yet...

	You never responded to my inquiries about FILM seeking. I sent
messages to the list:
  http://MPlayerHQ.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-March/006222.html
and to you personally simply asking a few general questions about how
seeking worked. I didn't ask you to jump into the code and fix it for
me. I just wanted to make sure I had the general idea straight and find
out if I was missing any important concepts. No response at all.

> how long is your todo list? how long it takes to complete soemthing i ask or
> report? how long that fscking rgb16 support took in rle? or fixing imaadpcm?

	Remember how long it took you to fix the underlying support that
was required in order to make BGR15/16 even work? Hint: It took a lot
longer than it took me to make the decoder work with the output
format. I've always been responsive to your bug reports.

> i don't remember reading about bgr16 problems before. point me that mail...

	RTFMLA (read the *f*-ing mailing list archive):
  http://MPlayerHQ.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2002-March/006519.html
It's even right there in the subject line.

> also note that none of them were my bugs. i've just fixed them, it took 10
> minutes, even you could do that if you want...

	And it took me about 2 minutes to fix MS RLE after you fixed the
10-minute problem. Given that, why didn't you just fix it yourself?

	I have a laundry list of bugs in MPlayer modules that don't belong
to me, and I have it on my personal TODO list to investigate them one
day. The reason is that I don't count on you or anyone else to care about
the bugs even though they're in your code. OTOH, I do care about the bugs
in my code. When people send me weird media, I adapt my decoders and
demuxers to be able to handle it, rather than dismissing it as, "no one
cares about that format." No one cares about the MS IMA ADPCM format,
either, so why do you keep harping on that? (Even though it does work
now.)

-- 
	-Mike Melanson