Lee Revell wrote:
On 3/1/07, Joern Nettingsmeier <nettings@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
* does not ever crash ;)
I've never seen a media player for any OS that never crashes (other
than the one built into a Tivo). mplayer is the closest I have seen.
I guess if you only need to support a single format like MPEG4 it
could be made reliable. But all bets are off if you need to support
proprietary codecs.
as i said, it's absolutely not a problem if it supported only one or two
open, well-documented and generally sane video codecs. the most
important thing (i think) is the pre-buffering feature - tacking a nice
"instant play" user interface on a playlist-driven player wouldn't be
hard, but i don't know of any existing players that do buffering...
