[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [MPlayer-users] Re: lavc-Options for *BEST*

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 08 February 2003 23:27, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Alex Beregszaszi wrote:
> > if mplayer is so simple and little, why do you bother us?
>
> I just want to point out that I do use MPlayer (on Mac OSX)...
>
> Anyway we joined the discussion because :
> - it has been brought to our attention that our work was badmouthed for
> no apparent reason
> - we are curious about what solutions other people can come with
> regarding containers
> - from what I've read I assume you're just creating something very
> similar to matroska, so you might like to avoid reinventing the wheel
> and contribute an existing project
1. matroska is much too complex
	c++ lib
	xml whatever?!
	float types?!
	i even see SHA1+MD5+RSA+eliptic stuff mentioned?! why?
i would like to know whats the advantage of using these, it would certainly 
mean a 5-10x amount of time needed to support these in some simple 
environments (embeded cpus with limited memory & slow cpu & no fpu, perhaps 
with no available c++ compiler)
there are many other formats (ogg,mpeg,avi,asf,nut :) ) which dont need these 
so what can be done so much better with them?

it contains fields for forw / bakw reference frames, thats nice, but h264 uses 
more then 2 reference frames, its allso not obvious why the container format 
needs to store these, i have the feeling that storing b frames in this will 
be very very complex, i hope iam wrong

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Michael