[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] the future of libamr

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:02:00PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> 
> On 6/8/2009 3:28 AM, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Benoit Fouet<benoit.fouet at free.fr> wrote:
> >> On 05/20/2009 11:55 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>> On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:01:48AM +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote:
> >>>> On 05/19/2009 07:38 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>>>> Now that OpenCORE AMR support is just around the corner, what about
> >>>>> libamr?  I'm in favor of removing support for it.  It's nonfree and it's
> >>>>> crap and we have a free replacement.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> There is a catch: libamr supports AMR-WB encoding, OpenCORE does not.
> >>>>> IMO we can disregard this.  Hopefully it will spur the development of a
> >>>>> native replacement.  I do not plan to remove libamr support from the 0.5
> >>>>> branch, so it will always be available there.
> >>>>>
> >>>> or we can only keep the support of the WB encoder, depending on non-free
> >>>> flag ?
> >>>>
> >>> You don't think keeping it in the 0.5 branch will be enough?
> >> it might be... I may be speaking for people who do not exist anyway
> >> (users of AMR-WB encoding feature)
> > 
> > In my win32 builds[0] I don't include libamr. The only people that
> > bother to contact me asking specifically for amr encoding are
> > commercial. If they spent their effort on an open source encoder that
> > would be much better. So, I'm for this removal...
> 
> Or they can stop using FFmpeg.

Your point being?

Diego