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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:53:48PM +0100, Thomas Orgis wrote:
> Am Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:03:21 +0100
> schrieb Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de>: 
> 
> > * mp3lib
> > 
> > Upstream exists again.  Compiling against the external version is a
> > welcome feature.  FFmpeg does not expect to grow a float decoder in
> > the foreseeable future, so I expect mp3lib to stay with us for now.
> 
> ... so a patch to optionally use external libmpg123 is welcome?

Yes.

> But it should not replace the internal mp3lib?

Let's start with external libmpg123 support.  Depending on how this
turns out we can make decisions for the future.  I'm not opposed to
dropping internal mp3lib as a matter of principle, but there are
many arguments to consider.

Diego