2011-10-03, 15:45
wsippel Wrote:I don't really know how XBMC works, but considering there is a replacement for DVDPlayer, wouldn't it make sense to throw that part out altogether and just use vanilla MPlayer or Mplayer2 instead? I honestly didn't even realize there are issues with hi10 at first, as I usually use various MPlayer frontends, and MPlayer handles hi10 just fine. XBMC is mostly about the library and interface, right?
short answer: no. From what I understand it wouldn't make the work load any easier, it would actually increase it. Changing to a totally new internal player and making sure everything internal in XBMC works nicely with it would be a much bigger task than upgrading the ffmpeg component of DVDPlayer.
Why this actually is? I don't fully understand the technical side of it, so a dev would have to go into details about that.