[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer libtremor patch

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Aug 10, 2006 at 12:13:47PM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 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

yes, this is a much better idea.

rich