Re: Arpi, if you are still reading the mcf-mplayer

>>You can always have wrappers for C if you really can't stand it.
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> and what is teh sense of some c->c++->c wrapper? nothing

Why are you talking about that ?

>>Also, the lack of such a common programming platform/architecture is 
>>exactly why all the player are so complicated to adapt...
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>>Making a basic DShow player can take very little time to play so many 
>>formats !
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> and there are tons of players using the same buggy dshow codecs/demuxers...
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> i never liked this kind of modularization...
> easy implementation of player should not be a goal for a codec interface...
> performance, stability... it should.

OK, so it's better to restart a project from scratch when there is a bug 
somewhere...

Also if you look at the BeOS Media Kit, you'll see that their major goal 
is performance.