> I'm wondering if there is so much turmoil here, why doesn't someone (like VLC) take the best features from both projects and create their own library? These

> I'm wondering if there is so much turmoil here, why doesn't someone (like VLC) take the best features from both projects and create their own library? These days I just use gStreamer which can wrap either one in a sane API and is 1000x easier to extend.