[MPlayer-dev-eng] tremor vs libvorbis, include tremor in main/

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 12:14:49PM +0100, Jindrich Makovicka wrote:
> D Richard Felker III wrote:
> >On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 11:22:10AM -0500, compn wrote:
> >
> >><dalias> - tremor is a pain to compile yourself because of broken 
> >>distro/build system (svn/automake only)
> >><dalias> - tremor is not packaged in most distros
> >><dalias> - tremor is MUCH faster than libvorbis
> >><dalias> - rich supports including it in mplayer cvs :)
> >>
> >>[11:18] <dalias> btw tremor also has a compiletime option for 
> >>quality/speed tradeoff
> >>[11:19] <dalias> this option should be duplicated in mplayer configure
> >>[11:19] <dalias> or maybe we could even make it into a runtime option 
> >>somehow
> >>
> >>http://svn.xiph.org/trunk/Tremor/
> >>
> >>comments?
> >
> >
> >since the context seems to be missing, we were discussing including
> >tremor (possibly modified, eventually optimized) in main mplayer cvs.
> 
> Just for your information, the trunk version uses a different API, so it 
> will not link with mplayer and would probably require nontrivial changes 
> of demux_ogg (proven by contradiction, as trivial changes didn't make it 
> work for me :) ). Release 1.0 looks ok at first sight of its include 
> files, I'll try to work on it tonight.

i'd actually like it if we could throw out the existing demux_ogg and
port the old "g2" demux_ogg to mplayer g1. why? it doesn't require
libogg crap but does all the demuxing on its own.

rich