[Mplayer-dev-eng] Version number

[Nick Kurshev]

Hi, Arpi!

On 2001-06-05 10:44:23 you wrote:

>> What about 1.00 or 0.98 version for next release?
>Later. We are far from being complete with this stuff.
>
I thought that stability is main criterion of non zero Major version number.
All bugreports about crashing of mplayer are, in general, from gcc-2.96 users.
ToDo list and stability are difference things. If project works it should be realsed
as stable to be usable by other peoples (not only by developers and testers)
IMHO in mplayer now are fixed very serious bugs and its version should be incremented
at least up to 0.50.
0.18 would be appropriately 3 weeks ago, but not now.

>> MPlayer still contains some lacks:
>> 1. Missed CDROM mode for DVD disks
>do you mean that .ifo parsing / correct DVD chapter etc positioning stuff?
>
I'm not specialist in internal structure of DVD media but windoze DVD player
says that my DVD disk is copyrighted and can be played only in CDROM mode
(not in file mode). So I can't select individual .vob file and play it separatedly
(only DVD disk entire).
But as I see mplayer can play only in file mode and lacks "cdrom mode".
(It's likewise -vcd key)

>> 2. Lacks possibility to playback several files continiously
>yes. it's planned in the near future.
>
>> 3. libao2 contains not many drivers.
>hmm. alsa, oss, sdl (for esd,arts and all special drivers) isn't enough?
>
For me are enough of old audio drivers ;)

>> 4. MPlayer can't decrease size of picture during scaling.
>> (I.e. play 720x560 DVD in full sreen at 640x480 screen resolution)
>hmm. it CAN for me! maybe it's a limitation of your video driver.
>for example 3dfx card's Xv can't downscale image. G400 can.
>
For S3Virge - may be! But hope on software emulation of this feature.

>
>I think we should release 0.98 when the player is almost perfect.
>We have too long TODO list yet.
>
As for me - solving a-v resync problem doing mplayer as perfect software.

>Next steps after the 0.18 release:
>- introducing libvo2, and porting drivers from libvo
IMHO libvo2 it's for mplayer-2.0 ;)

>  it will allow very fast direct rendering and multi-buffering
>- optimization of some video functions, i mean scaling, yuv2rgb, sub/osd
>  renderer etc. You can help a lot with these!
If those will be usable on my hardware

>- add some control funcs to libao2 (volume control, etc)
>
>- finish network streaming (asf, avi, mpg)
>- implement input cache (integrating TOOLS/cache.c ?)
>- move video decoding and fileformat-dependent stuff (open/seek/close)
>  out from mplayer.c -> it requires for multi-file playing  (big work)
>
>- implement DVD subtitle rendering (IMHO simple thing)
>- implement DVD .ifo parser (German and/or LGB is working on that!?)
>- finish sblive SPDIF output
>
>I think these above are the minimum for the 0.98 release.
>
IMHO printed above list for 1.5 - 2.0.

Best regards! Nick (2001-06-05 13:08:06)


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