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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:57:44PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:55 PM, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> 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?
> 
> Lack of run-time 3rd party plug-ins ala GStreamer?

Those are just a convenient way to sneak proprietary software through
the backdoor.

Diego