[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] removal of libmp1e

Arpi arpi at thot.banki.hu
Sun Feb 3 14:56:00 CET 2002


Hi,

> Hi,
> after many hours of hard labour I found out that libavcodec has grown
> faster than libmp1e at encoding mpeg1. The quality is slightly lower,
it's both false
it's slower than mp1e (not too lot, but i have ~9s for mp1e and ~12s for
libavcodec) and libavcodec has no worse quality (at least in DVB, try to set
qscale=2)

> but the gain in speed is inpressive. The DXR3 device now uses libavcodec
> (as it also works on a lot more platforms than libmp1e).
> The attached patch should remove all mp1e dependencies and libmp1e
> should be removed from cvs asap.
not yet :(

> The libmp1e code was a real mess, and I would've never gotten around to
i agree
i also tried to remove unneeded pthreads stuff but it seems to be endless
impossible job :(

> fixing it (believe me, it would be more work than it'd be worth) and
> that time can be spent optimizing libavcodec instead.
yes


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