[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Making all vo globals local

Alexander Strasser eclipse7 at gmx.net
Mon Feb 28 19:37:56 CET 2005


Joey Parrish wrote ( On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 12:31:15PM -0600 ):
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 10:41:36AM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 01:14:57PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 05:55:41AM +0100, Ivo wrote:
> > > > If you have any comments on this, please respond! If not, I'll start working 
> > > > on a huge patch that converts all vo's and video_out.c to this format :-)
> > > 
> > > I currently can't see any sense in this, it is just a huge "cosmetics"
> > > patch than in addition might (or actually will) have negative effects on speed...
> > 
> > Nonsense, nothing like this can affect speed. It's on a completely
> > different order of magnitude than the speed-relevant stuff. I was the
> > one who suggested changes like this (or at least not adding new
> > static/global vars in the vo's) because in the long term everything
> > should support multiple instances. Of course, libvo will probably be
> > replaced before then, but still we should be practicing good design.
> 
> I agree.  Since G2 is silent, we should adopt good architecture into G1,
> especially when someone's already done the work.

I'm not against it. Though it is not yet useful as reimar stated correctly
and maybe never will with current libvo as rich said.
At least it is more future proof, whatever will be ;)

  Alex (beastd)




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