[MPlayer-dev-eng] The road to rc1

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:13:27PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> 
> This is the first of many mails before the next release...

:)

> The main targets for rc1 were to integrate ass patch and dvdnav patch,
> and then proceed to 1,0 before the end of the year.
> 
> ass/ssa subtitles support is in, and afaik it's working.
> 
> What about dvdnav patch? Looking at the many changes since pre8, it
> probably does not even apply anymore to current svn. Any news on it? do
> we still want it in? what needs to be changed?

I haven't heard anything about it anymore and I'm sure it does not apply
cleanly.

> Any other big patch i'm forgetting?

I'm not aware of any.  Perhaps more importantly, are there any important
regressions?  I think Ogg seeking was broken, but the problem
mysteriously disappeared.

> As a target date i was thinking about September (2nd half), it could be
> nice to wait after SoC end to be able to include the SoC codecs.

When does the SoC end?  I don't think we should wait for it.  Usually
we're slow enough for things to catch up to us anyway ;)

> So what's your opinon about rc1?
> 
> - integrate dvdnav before rc1, eventually release something else if
> dvdnav takes too much time (rc0?)
> - release rc1 (and then rc2 or 1.0) without dvdnav
> - treat rc1 like every other release, and allow big changes (including
> dvdnav) between it and 1.0

I'm fine with either solution.  As a big new feature we have the Windows
GUI, that should be enough to hype the release :)

We should try to start reviewing the dvdnav patch, otherwise it will
never move forward, integrating it will be a considerable effort.

Diego