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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:22:51PM +0200, Roberto Togni wrote:
> 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".

I'm testing right now.  I just fixed a linking failure when internal
tremor was disabled.  Unfortunately our native Ogg demuxer depends on
libvorbis/tremor.  The libavformat demuxer is an alternative, but with
Theora video it displays artifacts after seeking and miscalculates the
file length...

> If external tremor is not working then removal of the internal one is
> not a good choice (unless it always outperforms ffvorbis)

Ummm, unless what?  What do you mean exactly?

Diego