Fixing ffmpeg (was: people talking...)

2008-06-23 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
Wow. Some really interesting traffic all of a sudden. Seems like the f-mktg-list is turning into the f-video-list. :) Comments inline. On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Jeff Spaleta wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:14 PM, Ricardo Garcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally, I think stopping ffmpeg

Re: Fixing ffmpeg (was: people talking...)

2008-06-23 Thread Ricardo Garcia
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 9:06 AM, Greg Dekoenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Still, in a code project, nothing talks like code. Sometimes the best thing to do is just write some code. The ffmpeg guys likely have thought about the problem space, and have some idea about how to solve it, but

Re: Fixing ffmpeg (was: people talking...)

2008-06-23 Thread Greg Dekoenigsberg
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008, Ricardo Garcia wrote: Wait wait wait - when you say ' and Rick, you are *really* the other right guy,', is that included in the *if*, or it's actually an affirmation? Looks like I dropped an if. But honestly, you're the rightest guy I've seen come along so far. :)

Kernel Driver Statement

2008-06-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, We, the undersigned Linux kernel developers, consider any closed-source Linux kernel module or driver to be harmful and undesirable. We have repeatedly found them to be detrimental to Linux users, businesses, and the greater Linux ecosystem. Such modules negate the openness, stability,

Linux Graphics, a Tale of Three Drivers

2008-06-23 Thread Rahul Sundaram
Hi, https://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Linux_Graphics_Essay Finally, setting aside the philosophical issues, economically it's obvious from this data that binary drivers don't make sense: Nvidia isn't in the list of top oops causers as part of some grand strategy to make itself (and Linux)