[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Fix return values of WaitForSingleObject when checking an event

[Alex Converse]

2010/3/18 Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 07:47:29PM +0100, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote:
> > To whoever wants to see anything like that happen: Reuse WINE. TTBOMK this is
> > what CoreAVC-for-Linux now does, and it's the only sane long-term solution.
> > We don't need fifteen different projects reimplementing different parts of
> > the Win32 API in various buggy ways. (Yes, you will probably need your own
> > process, but you'll need that to run 32-bit codecs on 64-bit platforms
> > anyway.)
>
> The question now is why arent you using wine in mplayer but hack around on the
> bugs? :)
> And the second question is why not move this to ffmpeg/libavcodec from where
> every project could use it?
> It seems to me that having win32 codecs available through the libavcodec API
> would be quite convenient for small and simple players. Any player not
> liking it through lavc could still use its own of course ...
>

This probably should be discussed on ffmpeg-devel. I believe some of
the other developers have major objections to this.

--Alex