[MPlayer-dev-eng] external libmpeg2

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:38:47PM +0000, Magnus Damm wrote:
> Any reason for not using a external variant of libmpeg2 if present?
> The libmpeg2-project at sourceforge has altivec support but the mplayer
> fork of libmpeg does not have support for altivec extensions.

Yes, the api is totally different, and the new api is not
mplayer-friendly yet. When these issues are resolved, the new libmpeg2
will be included with mplayer so there'll be no need for using the
external lib anyway.

Rich