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

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 07:50:08PM +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
[...]
> > * 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?
> 
> Not particularly, but I wonder when FFmpeg got faster?
> IIRC it was always slower... Of course that might depend on the CPU,
> libmpeg2 only supports up to SSE I think, so with CPUs that support
> more than that libavcodec probably has a chance.

what i remember and that was that way for a long time was that
libavcodec was faster for some files/cpus/gcc versions and
slower for others.
I also remember that we could gain a sizeable speedup by just throwing
non mpeg2 code out of the codepath. (gcc doing something really silly
here, the speed difference was quite a bit bigger than what one would
expect from the execution of the occasional if(0))
also i remember keiji working on this but i dont think anything usefull
came out of it.
If someone wants to make our decoder faster iam willing to help & review
patches, but i wont spend my time trying to beat libmpeg2 for all files,
this is silly
wasted time that i could spend better like trying to make h264 beat all
closed source decoders ...
Besides my offer for a write account to walken still stands if he wants
one. He would be a great help in h264 optims for example or he could
port all the tricks from libmpeg2 or even add external libmpeg2 support
to lavc.

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