[MPlayer-dev-eng] A RTP streaming patch for "mplayer"

D Richard Felker III dalias at aerifal.cx
Thu Apr 11 04:38:10 CEST 2002


On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 04:50:02AM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > message is highly condescending. Personally, if I had the time, I'd
> > rewrite the RTP code for mplayer just to get you out of the
> > picture...but you're not worth more of my time than it takes to write
> > a rude email.
> 
> ehh, it was really rude...

yeah, so was his condescending email implying that mplayer and other c
programs were somehow backwards...

> ok, if he likes it, it's his business. Once a time someone will rewrite
> the code in plain C, just like teh Xien guy did with the directshow lib.
> It was really a pain in teh ass, as the directshow lib emulates the
> visualc++ virtual methods of a c++ interface in C, but it works.

yep, that's pretty amazing. :)

> so, in short: we may hate c++, but we shouldn't be so rude with c++ ppl.
> especially when _he_ implements a more-or-less clean patch for mplayer,
> and not we have to do the mess with c++ as we did with all other c++ code.

ok, ok, i'll try not to be so rude to them. even c++ ogres have
feelings too, or something like that. :)


rich




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