[MPlayer-dev-eng] Binary codecs

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Saturday 20 November 2004 02:48, Roberto Togni wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> In the last few days there were a lot of patches to support binary
> codecs (win32 dll).
>
> I'll apply everything that decode formats now unsupported, but what do
> do with the rest?
>
> In detail:
> 1) Add binary codecs for formats we can decode natively?

advantages:
* usefull for debugging native codecs

disadvatages:
* bloat
* bigger/more codec packages -> more bandwidth needed for the servers
* users will use the binary codec if the native doesnt work instead of 
reporting it -> the native codecs will be buggier 

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-- 
Michael

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