[madshi]

I don't give a damn about dsplayer, but this is sooo far from our values that I'd give -1 to merging just for that phrase...

You don't know the background/history. Recently mpv has started copying a lot of ideas from madVR, including some algorithms I invented myself (things nobody else ever did before), without giving any credit. And when they found a bug in one of my algorithms, they didn't bother to report it to me, instead they used it to advertize their own solution as being "superior". I only heard about it months later from a user. Furthermore, mpv fans are going through many forums now, trying to convince madVR users to switch to mpv because they say it now would have all important madVR features and at better quality (which is both not true). Considering this background, maybe you can understand that I don't feel like helping mpv copy even more ideas/algorithms.

Would you like it if somebody came along, copied all the good ideas from Kodi (but no source code, to make it legal), named it something else, without giving any credit to you, and then tried to steal users away from Kodi by claiming that their software had all the important Kodi features and at better quality (when both is not true)?

Criticizing him? He does what he wants. It's just totally incompatible with the open-source philosophy in general and kodi's in particular.
I personnaly think it's nearsighted to rely on a piece of code that could just cease to exist tomorrow by one man's decision.

What contribution would be left, then?

I've been developing eac3to and madVR for almost 10 years now. Doesn't that speak for itself about my commitment? Do you think that after I invested tens of thousands of hours into these projects, I would suddenly let them die? I can understand if you'd prefer Kodi to have nothing to do with closed source library/components. But if they can provide a noticeable upgrade for users, is your ideology more important than the user experience?

In the end, it seems a good path forward is for Kodi to split the video player and video renderer into separate binary files, with a clear and stable interface. Which was planned by you devs, anyway. Then I could make madVR compatible with that interface, and Kodi users would gain another option without you having to do much extra work. That way everybody would win, no?