Chris, you know I do not approve of SSS "manners" or the lack thereof, calling people names at all times, if they dare differ from his opinion etc. etc. - and that I have frequently told him off on those grounds, because he really "deserved" it...
However, as far as his coding is concerned, from a standpoint of an IT-lay person/user (me), who tested a lot of that stuff, I must say your conclusion seems a bit doubtful...
I tested SSS's "stuff" in various older, weaker HW, under the same E2 image, in Gstreamer/various players and ffmpeg/Eplayer3 combinations - lots!
My conclusion is opposite from yours. In weaker, older HW ffmpeg/Eplayer3 combination works much better and does a lot more "stuff"...
I don't know how you tested it, maybe there was a problem in how you installed/configured it - I don't know but...
Under the same conditions, at the very least in weaker/older HW - ffmpeg/eplayer3 works and way better...
Plus, SSS promised to open it all up, in time - Open Source, that is - so give him a chance...
Edited by gorski, 14 April 2016 - 00:35.
<span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'>"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one's own understanding without the guidance of another. This immaturity is self-incurred if its cause is not lack of understanding, but lack of resolution and courage to use it without the guidance of another. The motto of enlightenment is therefore: Sapere aude! Have courage to use your own understanding!</span><br /> <br /><span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'>Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why such a large proportion of men, even when nature has long emancipated them from alien guidance..." I. Kant, "Political writings" (1784)</span><br /> <br /><span style='font-family: comic sans ms,cursive'><a class='bbc_url' href='<a class='bbc_url' href='
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