[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer libtremor patch

[Michael Niedermayer]

Hi
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 10:40:23PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

or write a fixed-point imdct for ffmpeg

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