[MPlayer-dev-eng] internal libfaad2 forked copy

[compn]

On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 20:39:46 +0100, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 01:28:18PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
>> Janne just committed LATM support to FFmpeg.  AFAIK that fixes the
>> main shortcoming of FFmpeg's AAC decoder compared to libfaad2.
>> IOW, the time for us to remove the internal libfaad2 copy from
>> MPlayer appears to have come.
>> 
>> libfaad2 is still faster than ffaac in fixed-point mode on my K6-III,
>> which has a slow FPU, but I'm not aware of any other major issues.
>> 
>> Anything I'm missing?  Otherwise libfaad2 shall go the way of the dodo.
>
>Yes, patience.
>First the issues that Carl reported against the FFmpeg decoder must be
>analyzed and/or fixed, then FFmpeg one must be made default, then there's some
>waiting for bug reports, then would should maybe think about disabling
>both internal and external faad by default and then we're really close
>to remove the actual code.

dont forget merging our latm faad stuff into upstream.

btw we can help ffmpeg by getting more latm samples. maybe someone
could post a news entry asking for people to test svn ffmpeg and report
bugs/samples straight to roundup?

-compn