2012-02-13, 18:28
ashlar Wrote:This is the feature suggestions board, not the development one. Code welcome is worth zero here, in my opinion.Valid point or not, the sense of entitlement is still there.
The guy is raising a valid point. Let's say that iOS for whatever reason gets stuck with obsolete ffmpeg (or whatever else) for a couple of years. Would it be fairer to make all other platforms obsolete to wait for iOS to catch up?
Bear in mind that I am an iPad and iPhone user. While I respect the choice of heavily supporting multiplatform development, I have some doubts that leaving a significant majority with outdated codecs would be the best road to follow.
Quote:If development is going to wait for things to play nice with apple before moving forward we might as well give up on all media player aspects of this project. Unfortunately last I checked the point of this project was to be a media player.
Last I checked, XBMC is a media player, and a damn fine one at that. Please, show me a better, more feature-packed, extensible, cross-platform media front-end that's both free, and, for the most part, pretty user friendly. I'll be waiting.
As much as people want to bitch and moan and whine about their pet/niche feature being included, they want to do very little to actualize it, except complain. And yes, 10b h264 support is still niche. Show me where, other than anime rips, it's used extensively. It may be where things are moving, but it's not where they are currently, therefore it's not really needed in a mainstream release. And the current version of ffmpeg included is hardly obsolete.
Oh, and just because it's a feature request doesn't mean that code can't be contributed for it, so no, it's not pointless. Since the feature would require change/addition to source, it's more than welcome.