[MPlayer-users] CrystalHD support in MPlayer

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Thursday, 04 February 2010 at 22:51, Jaroslaw Zachwieja wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 4 February 2010 16:12, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> > Jaroslaw Zachwieja <grok <at> warwick.ac.uk> writes:
> >> I was wondering if there is a plan to add support for crystalhd
> >> hardware decoder in mplayer?
> > Clean patch probably welcome, but consider adding the feature to FFmpeg.
> 
> Apologies for sounding like a luddite, but can you tell me why would
> it be more beneficial adding it to FFmpeg? Does that code
> automagically trickle down to mplayer/mencoder?

In short, yes. Adding support for new things from FFmpeg in MPlayer
seems to be much less work, too. Also, FFmpeg is used more widely
as base for other players as well, so it gets more testing.

Regards,
R.

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