2015-11-10, 09:15
(2015-11-10, 08:55)Warner306 Wrote: Agreed that a Windows-only player wouldn't likely be included in Kodi, but if the code was already available, I wish it was. Moving away from madVR wouldn't improve anything, though. No other video renderer does as much, even if many other players share features.
The attempt to make madVR proprietary is almost certainly a reflection of the work madshi has put into developing it. It may even become paid software when it reaches 1.0, but that doesn't mean I wouldn't want to use it. As far as I'm concerned, the price tag of the software I use is optional. It doesn't have to be open source to be good or valued. Software like JRiver is paid in the face of free competition like Kodi and Emby and people still use it.
It is a matter of what people want. Many people want a version of Kodi with madVR.
As far as I concern, it is bad that DSPlayer now is madvr only. If it ever goes commercial, dsplayer user had no choice but to pay for it. So wouldn't that unfair to aracnoz?
Not everyone willing to fork money for MadVR though. Especially those who has power-friendly htpc who can't use much of madvr features anyway. Not everyone gonna buy dedicated graphic card for htpc. Most I knew went minipc with intregrated gfx and no option to upgrade gfx.
