[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer.c, main

[Ed Wildgoose]

>Note that Ed is not a developer and note also that we the developers did
>not agree that main should be rewriten as an event loop. Actually i
>pointed out quite a few difficulties when Ed proposed this the first time
>but he didnt respond to them at all.
>  
>

Agreed.  I didn't respond because I don't see the problems that you 
pointed out.  Most likely they are all there waiting to trip me up, but 
my ignorance is bliss at this stage!

Also, I didn't see any particularly time critical issues in that loop 
(apart from perhaps video display), but no doubt all will become clear 
if I get some time to dive in.  (For example it looks to me that the 
thing just spins as fast as it possibly can, with a single wait point to 
synchronise the video.  Probably wrong, just my observations based on 
how deeply I got into the code so far)

Sorry if I appeared to be trying to steer development direction, it was 
only intended as a pointer on an interesting idea.  My apologies

Ed W