[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH v2] Add initial support for 12-bit color mode.

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:13:13AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Thursday, 04 March 2010 at 18:53, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> > Monday 01 March 2010 17:56:53 Carl Eugen Hoyos napisał(a):
> > > On 2010-03-01 01:04, Janusz Krzysztofik wrote:
> [...]
> > > (In case that makes it easier for you: Just imagine libswscale 
> > > being an external of MPlayer svn.)
> > 
> > I'm aware of this. BTW, why are ffmpeg provided libraries still included in 
> > mplayer svn?
> 
> Because MPlayer (ab)uses FFmpeg internal APIs. Also because libswscale was
> originally a part of MPlayer.

Or in case of libswscale because if we remove it it would be completely gone
and FFmpeg couldn't use it either. (or IOW, "our" libswscale is the only copy
of it, and this split seemed preferable over merging or moving it to FFmpeg
which would cause issues with the file's history).