[directfb-dev] Re: Xine, mplayer providers

["Jiri Svoboda" <jiri.svoboda@seznam.cz>]

Hi,
> > mplayer is a really cool player but looking at the code, it 
> is a piece 
> > of junk. a much cleaner approach would be using ffmpeg's libavcodec 
> > (xine and mplayer also use libavcodec). Using it directly 
> instead of 
> > xine or mplayer would eliminate a (fat) additional layer.
> 
> IMHO the big advantage of using xine over mplayer is that xine has an
> independant library called xine-lib that is really easy to integrate.
> 

If somebody is trying to make mplayer provider I suggest to look at
mplayer-g2 at http://mplayerhq.hu/~arpi/g2/
It is still under development but I think that it is better starting point
than current mplayer.

			JS



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