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

[Rich Felker]

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

Agree. But we could make our own fixed-up tremor tarball if the
upstream source is impossible to get and compile easily.

> 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?

AFAIK the reason was just that we wanted to support vorbis out of the
box without requiring users to have ogg-devel crap installed, and
tremor was chosen because it's smaller/simpler/faster than libvorbis.

Rich