[XviD-devel] last request
Edouard Gomez
ed.gomez at free.fr
Sun Feb 23 12:08:44 CET 2003
Radek Czyz (radoslaw at syskin.cjb.net) wrote:
> I would really like to understand why mplayer developers disgust
> any standard codec interface. Just because such interface is "a brain
> damaged microsoft's idea" is no argument.
>
> They have enough power to make UCI, or anything else, a *nix standard
> within months...
>
> Oh well, not my problem (except for this)
The problem is not having a common interface, the problem is directly
related to the fact that all shared library have a common name space and
we can't easily decide what to export and what to keep internal. gcc 3.3
or 3.4 (read the gcc development documentation) has new attribtes that
would allow us to avoid that in shared code
(__attribute__(visibility(hidden)))
Now, the problem with mplayer is also related to the fact they like to
do static linking, and in this case, you can't avoid name
clashes. MPlayer devs are very picky at that, they like their monolithic
architecture and don't try to convince them to do a dlopen()... this
choice has advantages and drawbacks...
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