ChrisNY, depending on how mplayer is built, the code in FAAD and mplayer can be the same so there is no real advantage from a decoding point of view.
You have to use Lame to encode into MP3 with both mplayer and FAAD. FAAD just handles one format, mplayer handles many so mplayer is a lot bigger and uses more memory. Having mplayer installed means it can be used for many formats such as mpc, AACplus, RealAudio and AAC so it may be easier to maintain than 2 apps. FAAD codebase does not look like it has been supported so if you are porting to a new platform there may be issues. For an Intel based Ubuntu - there may be little to choose between the two except memory usage. For some release of Ubuntu the mplayer in the repository is not up to date. -- bpa ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33236 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
