[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Port codebase to Theora 1.0 API

[Giorgio Vazzana]

2011/12/16 Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de>:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 03:47:25PM +0100, Giorgio Vazzana wrote:
>> libtheora 1.0 was released on November 3, 2008. That was more than
>> three years ago and all distributions are now using the 1.x series.
>> This patch updates the current MPlayer code to the libtheora 1.0 C
>> API. Regards,
>
> Out of curiosity: Why does anyone care? Is there some reason to
> prefer libtheora over FFmpeg's decoder?

As far as I'm concerned, the FFmpeg's decoder works really well and
I've used it many times. Nonetheless, libtheora is the reference
implementation and it's always good to have an alternative. Since I
had worked on this patch a while ago, I thought I might just as well
post it.