[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer libtremor patch

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:00:12PM +0300, Siarhei Siamashka wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 August 2006 18:33, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm, the future of this library within MPlayer is uncertain, possibly
> > it will get removed.
> 
> I'm sorry, but are there any good reasons for dropping internal tremor
> support (except for a minor size reduction)? From what I have read here, 
> this removal only adds troubles, isn't it just a regression? Was that an early
> decision before all these problems became apparent? Maybe it's time to
> reconsider?
> 
> As there is no external tremor package existing (only SVN), isn't it a library
> that is intended for inclusion into other project source trees by design?
> Someone mentioned broken compatibility between different tremor versions, are
> you sure there will not be any compatibility breakages in the future?

Tremor was added back when there was no Vorbis decoder in FFmpeg.  Now
that there is one and it has become faster than Tremor in 99% of all
cases there is good reason to remove it again.

I know you care about ARM and Tremor.  A good way to show your
appreciation would be to help fix external Tremor support.

Diego