[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: Is it possible to compile mplayer/mencoder as a lib called by other applications?

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 08:08:49AM -0700, Bryan Wilkerson wrote:
> I've also been toying with the idea of multiple
> "instances" which would allow apps to play/edit
> multiple files simultaneously.  As you can imagine,
> that would change the interface, as each call would
> require a handle/pointer that mplayer_initialize would
> return.  

Good luck.. MPlayer is full of global vars and crap that's not
reentrant/multiple instance safe. Fixing this is basically a complete
rewrite.

Rich