[MPlayer-dev-eng] mpg123 / mp3lib 64bit SSE code

[Uoti Urpala]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 14:55 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:46:41PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 13:40 +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:12:12PM +0200, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I understand that you don't want to have every media player depend on
> > > > an endless number of decoding libs and rather prefer working through
> > > > one interface, that of ffmpeg, for example. But that does not mandate
> > > > that the separate libraries should not exist at all... or does it?
> > > 
> > > Nowadays I see decoders outside FFmpeg as a waste of time.
> > 
> > Why? FFmpeg as is has quite a lot of limitations;
> 
> Which limitations do you see?

The most significant one in this context is the API issue I mentioned
later. Some applications need more specific functionality which does not
properly fit under a shared general API. As long as FFmpeg tries to fit
everything under an uniform API, more featureful libraries (which also
contain decoding as part of the functionality) are better packaged
separately.