[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/DOCS/en codecs.html,1.124,1.125

[Arpi]

Hi,

> > Why not integrate libvorbis and libmp3lame, while you're at it? ;)
> > These are very important, too, and you have to install some extra
> > library. ;)
> 
> IMO the argument for including faad is that the source package is
> usually broken and has idiotic dependencies (like libsoundfile or
> whatever). Same situation as dvdread/dvdcss when they were first
> imported to mplayer cvs. On the other hand, lame and vorbis libs are
> generally non-broken. Also lame is only needed for mencoder, which
> most people don't seem to use.

totally agree.

i've just downloaded libfaad2 v2.0rc1 release tarball (after finding
the project on the net, since not being listed in freshmeat...), and:
- the tarball was created inside the source tree, so extracting it as
  usual will trash your /usr/src (create many files and subdirs
  where you ran tar -xcf ...).
- it doesn't even include the generated ./configure script, just the
  autoshit source files, which (surprise!) doesn't "compile" with
  not-the-latest autotools. (dunno if latest works)
- it includes many useless files, including various win32 plugin
  sources (in the tarball targetted to unix systems), visual studio
  project files (big shit), id3 editor and many unrelated stuff.
- the actual code (few files from libfaad/ subdir) we're interested
  in is <1MB

so, anyone _against_ including it in mplayer 'main' cvs?


A'rpi / Astral & ESP-team

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