[Ffmpeg-devel] random number generator

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:58:01PM +0000, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> writes:
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> Whatever happened with the Marsenne Twister random number generator that
> >> was going to go into libavutil?  One of the criteria for getting the
> >> LGPL AC3 decoder merged was to split that part out for use by the rest
> >> of FFmpeg.  I also found in the ML archive where someone had proposed a
> >> better version than what's in the ac3 decoder, but it seems nothing ever
> >> happened with it.
> >
> > hmm, seems ive oked it but noone applied it, blame the mphq root team for
> > not having setup a useable patch and bugtracker, with it patches wouldnt
> > be forgotten like that ...
> 
> Blame everybody for not having written a decent one.

define "decent one"

also it doesnt have to be decent, it just has to work, and i think most
are better then just using a mailinglist and constantly forgetting patches
and bugreports ...
its ironic considering how many mpeg related things you have forgotten,
this wouldnt have happened even with the most crappiest bug/patch tracker

[...]

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