On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:22:00PM +0200, Uoti Urpala wrote: > On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 17:20 +0200, Pasi K?rkk?inen wrote: > > Thanks for the link. > > Is the git repo replacing svn or what's the deal here? > > As you can see Reimar still wants to keep doing development in svn the > same way as before, so the svn repo will probably exist at least for > some time. However the git repo already has significant advantages for > some fairly large groups of people: > * those who have a multicore CPU and want to take advantage of it > for decoding (easy to use support for threaded decoding with > ffmpeg-mt) > * those who use VDPAU (improved VO with more features, better > performance especially when using hardware decoding with > deinterlacing, and less bugs) > * those who play files with SSA/ASS subtitles (svn uses an > outdated embedded copy of libass, while git uses an up-to-date > version of the library; the newer version can handle more > features and has better vsfilter compatibility) > * those who play Matroska files with ordered chapters (ordered > chapters work in git, are not supported at all in svn) > and there are quite a lot of other changes. Most of the features will > likely never appear in svn. > So the git tree is basicly a fork of mplayer svn? Is there some reason of not synchronizing the repositories? Are the new features considered bad in some way, so that they cannot be integrated to the 'official' svn tree? Just trying to get the big picture here :) -- Pasi
