[mythtv] AC3 playback mangled until timestretch activated

[Stuart Morgan]

On Monday 01 Mar 2010 20:22:56 Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> We don't need the bloat of staticly linked applications, and shared
> libraries mean only one version of a library needs fixing when a bug or
> security problem is found, rather than having to recompile a bunch of
> staticly linked applications.

When you have to maintain said application, dealing with ever changing APIs 
and the hundreds of support requests for bugs and behaviour changes which are 
present in some versions of a lib but not others, then you get to make the 
decisions. 

Users expect mythtv to be stable, for it to compete against proprietary 
applications and DVRs which get to not only determine the libs they use but 
the hardware too. #7796 is a perfect example of what can go wrong when users 
don't use the libs we include, everyone suffers, we have to deal with the 
tickets it generates even though it's not our problem and the users have a 
broken system. It's not even as though those libs add tens of MBs to the 
download, the suggestion that including them results in bloat is ridiculous.

The choice made by Christian is unpopular with the devs and it's even been 
suggested that we force the Debian port to change names ala IceWeasel/FireFox 
because we don't have the time to deal with breakages introduced by packagers 
who think they know better.
-- 
Stuart Morgan