[MPlayer-dev-eng] win32 loader

[Joey Parrish]

Rich Felker wrote:
 > On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 02:42:23PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
 >>> Even add it to ffmpeg instead of MPlayer. I think ffmpeg + the ability
 >>> to load binary codecs would make ffmpeg so multi-capable that I could
 >>> rely on it directly for certain of my personal projects.
 >> I don't think FFmpeg will ever support binary codecs, it's against its
 >> spirit.  And anyway, what codecs are you missing nowadays?
 >
 > I would be very disappointed to see binary codec loader in FFmpeg.
 > This crap should be removed and made obsolete, not expanded.

There will always be new closed codecs without support.  At least a 
binary codec interface closes the gap until a free implementation can be 
created.

--Joey