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

[Siarhei Siamashka]

On Friday 04 August 2006 23:59, Balatoni Denes wrote:

> I support the removal of tremor (of course) but there could be one
> regression. There is a hack in the ogg demuxer that asks tremor for the
> decoded size of each frame. This is needed because in ogg not every audio
> packet has it's own timestamp, but mplayer likes to always have the exact
> timestamp - so the demuxer calculates the time delta from the decoded
> packet length. This is missing from ffvorbis+ogg demuxer. The problem is,
> the decoded frame size is only known to the decoder. What could be done, as
> I see it is:
>
> a.) so what?
> b.) make it possible for lavc codecs to pass back data to caller, at least
> for the first packets/initialization - from that the ogg demuxer can figure
> out the rest
> c.) I don't remember what third alternative I had in mind.
>
> I was thinking of implementing b.), but I have no idea, and haven't really
> looked at it either. What do you think ?
>
> btw I hope what I wrote is correct, feel free to correct me if it's wrong

Well, what's wrong with keeping tremor then (though seems like I'm the only
user of it in the mailing list at the moment)? :-)