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

[Attila Kinali]

On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 11:22:59AM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
 
> 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!

Ignorance of "can't work" is necessary to do new stuff :)

> 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)

No, this observation is correct. The main loop just spins around
and waits at a single point. But it does quite a lot of stuff in the
loop with dependencies that are not imediatly obvious.

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

Accepted :)

			Attila Kinali