[MPlayer-dev-eng] external libmpeg2

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 08:51:29PM +0100, Arpi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > > is the whole-frame decoding (libmpeg2 includes an mpeg-es demuxer which
> > > cannot be disabled).
> > >
> > > > The libmpeg2-project at sourceforge has altivec support but the mplayer
> > > > fork of libmpeg does not have support for altivec extensions.
> > >
> > > we made a patch to get it usable with mplayer, it's waiting for being
> > > accepted since december at mpeg2-dev list...
> > 
> > yeah, no response until now ... :-(
> > 
> > It seems that Walken has to be VERY busy ...
> > 
> > Did he answer one of your mails, Arpi ?
> 
> none of them :(((
> 
> either we should keep mailing him (every day, mayeb every hour :)) until he
> applied the patch or fix it other way, or the simp[ler way: include the
> newer libmpdge + our patch applied into mplayer 'main' CVS

I vote for including the new version in mplayer cvs anyway. Having to
download, install, and keep up-to-date separate libs is annoying so
it's easiest to just put it all together.

Rich