[MPlayer-dev-eng] The path to RC2

[Attila Kinali]

On Fri, 3 Nov 2006 11:12:40 +0100
Benjamin Zores <ben at geexbox.org> wrote:


> - TimeShifting

Send patch ;)
 
> - record on the fly what you're currently watching (only doable for MPEG based streams i guess)

Send patch ;)

> - streaming capabilities (the way VLC does)

Send patch ;)
 
> - on the fly transcoding (again the way vlc does).

What does that mean?

> - A MUST HAVE: having a libmplayer to allow being controlled and tuned more easily and from a more generic way than slave mode currently allows.
> For VLC (again) wasn't meant to be used as a lib neither but they implemented a library on top of their slave mode for external apps to control it easily.
> Currently with MPlayer, everyone wanting to use slave mode has to re-invent the wheel.
> Of course, having a _REAL_ library (i.e. no slave mode) would be the best, making mplayer/gmplayer/mencoder code unified and they'll only be frontends to this lib then.

A lot of people wish this for a damn lot of time. But nobody
does it. And IMHO we should not do it before 1.0 as it is
a huge change in the code base.


> - implement all libmpdemux specific things to libavformat to completely
> bypass the use of the first one.

Send patch ;)


				Attila Kinali

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