[MPlayer-dev-eng] talk on mplayer and xine.

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:22:13AM +0000, James Courtier-Dutton wrote:
> 
> I have been asked to present a short (4 slide) talk on mplayer and xine.

Out of curiosity: Where?

I'd also be interested to see your slides if you care to share them.

> I was wondering if contributors to the mplayer project could provide 
> some input indicating your views on the following points so that I can 
> accurately present mplayer project's point of view, and not just my own:
> 
>   1. Focus and activity - describe the areas that your project is
> focusing and working on. This will put your goals and contributions in
> context for other participants.

Format support, speed, ease of use.  I envision a day when we can
correctly play any multimedia format just by typing

  mplayer <file/URL>

ideally without having to resort to binary codecs.

>   2. Problem areas - describe problems that your project has
> encountered, things that are not working or not available. These items
> will contribute to a gap analysis and areas for further discussion.

The potential for code cleanup is virtually unlimited, but of course we
suffer from the bane of all OSS projects with the prominent exception of
the Linux kernel: lack of manpower.

>   3. Dependencies - describe the organizations, projects and
> components that your project depends on. This helps everyone
> understand the map of the community.

MPlayer should be straightforward to build as it comes bundled with
most multimedia libraries (FFmpeg etc) it requires.  Apart from the
raw sources you will need zlib, FreeType for TrueType font support, X11
libs if you want X11 video outputs, etc.

>   4. Next steps - suggest concrete goals and objectives that you wish
> to see followed.

Continue development in small steps.  This is the way we have worked the
past few years and once you look back a release or two you notice you
have accomplished quite a bit.  For the medium term future I would like
to see proper support for DVD menus added.  It looks as though this goal
will be attained eventually.

Diego