The future of the included liba52 copy (was: Re: [Ffmpeg-devel] BUG REPORT: Garbled audio when AC3 stream changes channel count)

[Isaac Richards]

On Friday 13 January 2006 22:51, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:53:46AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 02:10:16AM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 01:28:23AM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > ffmpeg uses liba52 for decoding AC3, fabrice always wanted to write
> > > > our own AC3 decoder but didnt, the liba52 in ffmpeg isnt the latest,
> > > > it should be updated
> > >
> > > Updated or dropped?  Can we use external liba52?
> >
> > iam fine with either ...
>
> Then I think I would vote for removing it.  Opinions?

If you remove it, you add a new external dependency to any project using 
libavcodec that wants AC3 decoding.

Isaac