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[Carl Eugen Hoyos]

Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger <at> gmx.de> writes:

> > > If we want to remove things: Does anyone remember a reason to keep
> > > mp3lib?
> > 
> > I can add that it is still faster on the only systems where it matters, MMX
> > and SSE (watching HDTV means audio takes ~50% of the CPU).
> 
> You mean systems without SSE2?

Yes (and yes, with VDPAU).

> (shouldn't matter I'd think since SSE2 is
> for integer, and lavc codec uses float by default now).
> Do you have any guess why?

Vitor asked me the same question and I can only repeat that mp3lib has MMX code
that makes its (floating point?) decoding faster than ffmp3float on SSE.
(When I tested some time ago after FFmpeg received optimisations.)

Carl Eugen