[MPlayer-dev-eng] Release... How about it?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 12:36:48PM -0800, RC wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 17:50:18 +0100
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 
> > I'd really like to have a release soon, there were so many bug fixed
> > that I think it would be quite worth it for any user that fears CVS.
> 
> Off the top of my head, I can think of 3 outstanding bugs with
> the new version of libmpeg2.  I expect there are more.  Is anything
> going to be done, or do there need to be a storm of bugreports first?
> 
> I can think of several options to prevent problems before release:  
>   Fix known bugs 

yes.

>   Revert libmpeg2

i agree strongly. new version is buggy AND slower!

>   Default to ffmpeg for mpeg1/2

disagree. it's MUCH SLOWER. old libmpeg2 decodes everything except
4:2:2 and 4:4:4 (which never appear in practice).

rich