removing internal tremor (was: Re: [MPlayer-dev-eng] non-free and undistributable files in tremor/)

[Roberto Togni]

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 21:00:06 +0200
Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:

[...]
> OK, has somebody tested external tremor lately and can confirm that it
> still works?
> 
> So far nobody was against removing tremor, Dominik, Roberto, Reimar and
> Uoti were in favor on IRC, saying that maybe external tremor support
> should be tested beforehand.
> 
> So if you wish to keep tremor, speak up soon ...
> 

Well, without the "maybe". If external tremor is not working then
removal of the internal one is not a good choice (unless it always
outperforms ffvorbis)

Does anybody remember why tremor was imported into the MPlayer cvs
instead of being used as an external lib? Was it just a matter of
easiness of use (difficult to get/compile like it was for faad) or
there are other reasons? In any case, are those reason still valid?

Ciao,
 Roberto