[FFmpeg-devel] Float vs. fixed-point audio codecs

[Ronald S. Bultje]

Hi,

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 3 AVCodecs
> mp3
> mp3float
> mp3fixp
>
> can very easily achive this, mp3 would just pass calls through to whatever
> it determined to be faster.
> no flag is needed for this, also it can easily be extended to handle external
> decoders

I think this is a good idea, also because speed will differ per codec.
Usually it's not as simple as "float" vs. "fixp".

Ronald