[MPlayer-dev-eng] win32 loader

[Rich Felker]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Joey Parrish wrote:
> 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.

And this is exactly why it takes so long for a free implementation to
be created.... Also it only closes the gap for x86 users, and
encourages people to use the non-free codec when encoding (they say
"Linux users should just use the dll loader blah blah blah...").

Rich