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

>>Why do player developpers need to rewrite and AVI, MPEG, etc, demuxer 
>>everytime they have to play a format ? Why not rely on THE (open) filter 
>>of the architecture that the guy who created the format will do for you 
>>? Why recreate a whole data path (reinvent the wheel) when something 
>>efficient exists ?
> 
> as nothing efficient does exists.
> at least everyone implements it, and thinks that the other implementations
> are unefficient or buggy.

...so there's no point in changing, improving, trying, uniting.

>>- It's not because you can control everything (you can also control 
>>everything you need in DShow).
> 
> 
> hmm, could you please fix the avi demuxer bug of dshow then? no? ah.
> then we should keep workarounding it.

You are a coder. You know what is possible. And you know it's possible 
to remove a DLL and replace it with something better.