[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] factorize print_version()

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 13 January 2009, Uoti Urpala wrote:

> And will make those bug fixes and improvements much harder to do if
> MEncoder relies on the code working the old way. That's already a
> problem in some of the code in the subdirectories. As long as
> MEncoder remains fundamentally broken, tying MPlayer more tightly to
> it via additional shared code is a bad thing.

I rarely use mencoder, but when I do it's an adventure in rediscovering 
the old bugs and trying to jog my memory on what the workaround was, 
and discovering new bugs. I recall the "Too many audio packets in the 
buffer" problem vanishing and reappearing with changes to libmpdemux 
that fixed things in MPlayer, for example...