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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 07:28:27AM -0300, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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.

They asked for AMR *encoding* specifically?  NB or WB?

Diego