[MPlayer-dev-eng] Wishlist

[Bertrand Baudet]

On Wednesday 28 August 2002 11:30 am, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2002 at 11:01:22AM -0700, Bertrand Baudet wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 August 2002 02:39 am, Jonas Jermann wrote:
> > > * write a c implementation of rtsp
> >
> > Hummm, what's wrong with the LIVE implementation, except it's in C++?
>
> It's C++.

I don't think it's a good reason, but I don't want to restart the old C/C++ 
flame, so I will not argue on that.

> > I don't think that you realize the work that require to do an RTSP
> > implementation and all the glue around.
>
> Donno, still no reason not to put it on a wish list, svq3 is on
> the list too ;)
>
> > Actually I wouldn't mind implementating an RTSP layer (again) but I think
> > the advantage of using the LIVE implementation is it almost a full
> > implementation already there and already tested.
>
>     - I always get g++ (and gcc) problems with it (cc specification
>       applies only for gcc not g++, so the march=pentium3 won't work)

Do you really need optimization for a network layer? Won't the latency
of the network just override the speed optimization?

>     - For this and other reasons (design too) I do not like c++
>       code in MPlayer
... .... ....

>     - I like builtin support more than all those external libs
>     - Afaik there already is an uncomplete rtsp implementation
>       from the ffmpeg project.

So if people want to send a patch using it, go ahead, I will give it
a try.

> > > * real mms:// support
> >
> > What's wrong with the current one? And which one are you talking about?
> > The asf over http or asf over mmst/mmsu?
>
> mmsu isn't supported afaik.

See my reply to Arpi on that.

Bertrand