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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:37:57PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 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.

And mostly binary shitware to top it off.

Diego