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As to rolling our own, I'm not sure how much serious thought has been given to it. Every time it comes up, people mention how many man-years have been put into the code base, and how impossible that would be to match.

I now have a pretty good idea how much work it would be to get to a similar level of functionality - about four man years, without tuner functionality but with some other things not in empeg. Luckily codecs are no longer an issue thanks (surprisingly enough) to Real Networks and their open Helix platform. In fact if I were starting an open source player project for the empeg I'd consider starting with Helix DNA Client as the base line.

Rob