[MPlayer-dev-eng] release alongside FFmpeg

[Eric Appleman]

Uoti Urpala wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:09 +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 01:17:05PM -0500, Eric Appleman wrote:
>>     
>>> If ass support for vdpau doesn't make the cut, I am going to cry.
>>>       
>> Better start working on it right away then.  The release date is as
>> hard a deadline as you can imagine.
>>     
>
> I agree with Reimar that trying to have VDPAU support in a release soon
> is not such a good idea. It's probably quite possible to get usable
> VDPAU functionality by then. But
> 1) It'll still change enough afterward that we don't want to get bug
> reports about the old released version, support it in any way, or
> generally even hear about people trying to it.
> 2) There will be enough improvements later that using the release would
> be a very bad choice for anyone who wants/needs VDPAU support.
>
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While I agree that VDPAU support would be immature if included now, a 
one million dollar question must be asked of the devs:

How far down the line would the next release be and would that release 
be far enough away that the mplayer team returns to suggesting the svn 
over the stable release?

- Eric