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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:03:16PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> On 6/8/2009 12:37 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> My point being that we lost one user, which we could have easily kept.

Sorry, but this is nonsense.  There is absolutely no indication that
they stopped using FFmpeg because AMR support was not available.  And
what else would they use?  There is no alternative that comes even close
to FFmpeg's feature set.

Also, the primary goal of this project is not to get as many users as
possible at any cost.  Otherwise we would have included a DLL loader a
long time ago.

Diego