Kodi DSPlayer – DirectShow Player for Windows
(2015-11-26, 11:28)fritsch Wrote:
(2015-11-26, 11:17)apgood Wrote:
(2015-11-25, 15:21)fritsch Wrote: Okay.

I just unsubscribed - I really wanted to understand how DSplayer can help kodi architecture and all users - but it seems there is no interest - as kodi does not matter at all - as long as the play button calls something else.
Unfortunately I think you missed the point. There are a number of solutions that would fit your statement (with and without Kodi). If people were satisfy with what you say there would not be any demand for DSPlayer as you could just use MPC or similar as an external player.

What is sought is a seamless Kodi experience that includes the feature set that DSPlayer (and MadVR) provides.

Fully right. But there is no way of merging (unmaintained) thousands lines of code - that doubles internal player structures - and benefit allover kodi. That step would not make kodi more maintainable but a whole lot less ... You would never ever add a second floor onto a broken baseplate - not if you would plan to live in there with your family ... but you would sanitize and repair the baseplate and when that is done you would think of extending giving base ... this is my point - I hope the picture helps.
I agree with you and think Team Kodi's vision (if I have understood it properly) of taking a more binary addon approach with the video player is a great idea. I agree adding another player in as it currently stands would not be a good approach.

That is why I said in my previous post that it is a shame that the response to aracnovz's question was what it was, as you could have possibly had a Windows developer that would have helped with those 1000's of bugs. He reached out at what seems like a critical turning point. Had there been a bit of warmth in the response then a working relationship could have been built that resulted in 2nd dev doing some of that you need done.

What has happened means those possibilities will never even have the potential of being realised and you are left with one overworked windows dev.
No saying it would have happened (probably even a long shot given it seems he's suffering from burnout), but rather that the approach taken means no hope at all.

These threads for better or worse are your job advertisement for other Windows devs that might be interested in helping out. They will take one look at this thread and decide that Kodi is more focused on other platforms and that Windows devs and there ideas / suggestions are poorly received and therefore go elsewhere. Not saying this would necessarily be the case, but it is the perception that is being created.
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RE: Kodi DSPlayer – DirectShow Player for Windows - by apgood - 2015-11-26, 12:10
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