[MPlayer-dev-eng] internal libfaad2 forked copy

[Diego Biurrun]

On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 09:34:50PM -0400, compn wrote:
> 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.

Feel free to try.  I personally have little hope there.

Diego