[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer libtremor patch

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 03:08:16PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 23:40, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > Tremor was added back when there was no Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg.  Now
> > that there is one and it has become faster than Tremor in 99% of all
> > cases there is good reason to remove it again.
> 
> I would not call it a good reason. It only would make sense if Tremor was
> broken with nobody available to fix it. But as long as it works fine on ARM
> (and it does),

The reason is called bloat.

> I don't see any reasons for you to spend your time and do some work
> with the only goal to remove internal Tremor. Do you have nothing else
> to do?

This is an insult.

> And if you think it is OK to hurt 1% of users, I would like to quote Linus
> Torvalds: "the vast majority of people are part of a specific minority when it
> comes to something"
> http://lists.osdl.org/pipermail/desktop_architects/2005-December/000395.html

And this is why I am spending time on making external Tremor support
work.  Your behavior is truly puzzling.

> > I know you care about ARM and Tremor.  A good way to show your
> > appreciation would be to help fix external Tremor support.
> 
> Not really. I do care about ARM, but don't particularly care about vorbis, it
> is not so widely used after all. And I don't have much free time available for
> open source development and there are things that have higher priority for me
> (when speaking about MPlayer, these are optimized scaling and color conversion
> for ARM).

You flame, but you are not willing to contribute.  Somehow I'm not
surprised...

Diego