[MPlayer-users] Is libmad really needed???

[Nico Sabbi]

On Thursday 19 June 2008 17:39:53 Pedro A. Aranda wrote:
> Lately I have observed, that libmad is requested and I get a lot
> of messages like:
>
> Forced audio codec: mad
> Requested audio codec family [mad] (afm=libmad) not available.
> Enable it at compilation.
> Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3
>
> My question is: if mplayer is going to mp3lib when it sees that
> I don't have libmad (BTW libmad hasn't beed modified since 2004,
> hmmmm..), why do I have to receive this annoying message?
>

mad is needed with certain demuxers (demux_mpg, demux_ts, maybe more)
that don't parse mp3 packets for lack of a parser;  moreover it's an
int-only decoder (needed on certain platforms that lack an fpu)