On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:56:25PM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 05:07:14PM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 10:16:49AM -0400, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > > > > > > In case this works, Diego, Reimar, do you think it's worth to ship a > > > different codecs.conf on arm-ish (arm, armel and armhf) platforms that > > > prefer tremor over ffvorbis? Or can this preference perhaps be > > > influenced by a configure switch? > > > > I have thought about this before, but I have no good idea how to solve > > this. A different codecs.conf will work, but it's ugly. Maybe we > > could add a fixedpoint flag to codecs.conf entries and prefer these > > codecs on systems without FPU? > > > > Reimar? > > I think the approach that was discussed for FFmpeg was to only > compile the faster variant. > I has quite a few issues, but in principle only compiling in > tremor support would select it. > It would also work the other way round (and probably better), > make tremor the default but only compile it in on FPU-less > systems. > In the case of MPlayer there may be some issues with that, > e.g. the native ogg demuxer behaviour might change. > Of course the best solution would have been if tremor > hadn't been developed as a completely different library but > instead was just a different configuration of libvorbis...
I disagree slightly here since the issue does not only apply to Vorbis/Tremor. For MP3 we have a similar situation: We default to mp3lib, but ffmp3 is fixedpoint and thus faster on systems without FPU. So a slightly more general framework on our side might be adequate. Diego _______________________________________________ pkg-multimedia-maintainers mailing list pkg-multimedia-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-multimedia-maintainers
