[MPlayer-dev-eng] [RFC] internal library copies

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:46:14AM -0400, Alexander Strange wrote:
> 
> On Mar 17, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> > We carry around a bunch of externally available libraries and I think
> > it's time to review the situation around them.  Some of them we should
> > keep, others could be dropped.
> > 
> > * libmpeg2
> > 
> > Nowadays FFmpeg is faster and should be better maintained.  Unfortunately
> > we cannot compile against the external version.  This should not be hard
> > to fix.  If it gets fixed, we could remove libmpeg2 IMO.
> > Is anybody interested in fixing external libmpeg2 compilation?
> 
> libmpeg2 is faster than ffmpeg for me with 1 thread. (both are much
> faster than realtime)

Details?  We switched to FFmpeg as default some time ago because it was
considered faster...

> I think I know how to fix this.

Please do.

Diego