[MPlayer-dev-eng] cvid codec

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 03:39:59PM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 07:38:45PM +0200, Christian Ohm wrote:
> > why not default to the native codecs when they reach a state of
> > more-or-less-working (at least for development versions (cvs) and perhaps
> > -pre/-rc)? imho this would be a good idea because people would then actually
> > use those codecs and could report bugs. as it is now, the only time the
> > native codecs are used (if they're not default) is by people actually
> > testing them or when a dll doesn't work.
> 
> I agree, the native codecs need testing because we can fix them.  Bugs
> with the dll codecs are more difficult IMHO, and I believe that the
> native codecs should be meant to eventually replace the dll codecs
> whenever possible.  Making the native codecs the default will help push
> that goal.

Agree. :)

Rich