[MPlayer-cvslog] r26411 - trunk/libmpdemux/demuxer.c

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On 5/31/08, Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 09:59:30PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2008-05-31 at 20:11 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
>> > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 07:12:50AM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
>> [...]
>> > > > Diego wanted the other spelling as he had just changed it that way.
>> > > > Yet
>> > > > Iive changed the spelling back without any discussion, not even
>> > > > flaming
>> > > > that would have indicated there would be no agreement.
>> > >
>> > > iive discussed as much as diego did, that was bad in both cases sure.
>> >
>> > What Diego did was OK, what Ivan did was not.
>>
>> No, that is just your personal oppinion
>
> Um, we can discuss the libmpcodecs changes, but the other parts were
> documentation related for which
> 1) Diego is (at least inofficially) the maintainer
> 2) It is his job to keep the documentation consistent
> 3) For documentation it was decided that Xvid is the correct spelling
>
> Now, Ivan did not notice 3) I guess, nor had much reason to read the
> documentation lately, so I will not throw blame in that direction either
> but both the kind of flames about a 'd' vs. 'D' (well, actually I do
> not really think that is actually what it is about) and keeping half
> of the stuff using a different spelling as the other half is quite
> ridiculous.
> As a compromise I suggest: flame the Xvid guys for the renaming while
> supporting it only half-assed in public and do something more productive
> for MPlayer. I am sure I can find everyone something to do if you can't
> by yourselves....

xvid.org now belongs to "Xvid Solutions GmbH". The firm formed by some
of the (main) xvid developers. They turned their backs to the
community and are developing their own proprietary codecs.