[MPlayer-dev-eng] Status of CoreAVC (last time) and using win32 codecs on x86_64

[Loren Merritt]

On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jul 2007, Guillaume Poirier wrote:
>
>> People are lazy. If they have a proprietary solution that just works,
>> the open source solution has little chance to get developed/improved.
>
> Well, my experience is that the devs seldom have access to higher spec
> hardware, so they're usually not interested anyway.

Wouldn't devs with low spec hardware be more interested in optimizing? 
Maybe their cpu wouldn't be fast enough for 1080p either way, but the same 
optimizations help at any resolution.

--Loren Merritt