[Mplayer-cvslog] CVS: main/libmpflac - New directory

[D Richard Felker III]

On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 08:51:46PM +0400, Dmitry Baryshkov wrote:
> Hello!
> ? ???, 05.10.2003, ? 20:52, Alex Beregszaszi ?????:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > > > BTW: libmpflac is a stream-decoder part of BIG (or even HUGE)
> > > > library. It (more or less) same situation, as with libfaad. Suppose
> > > > 'less', because flac isn't popular in movies :)
> > > 
> > > I tend to agree somewhat. Stock flac lib has massive bloat and idiotic
> > > dependencies (libsndfile). If they can't release a clean simple
> > > library, but instead a whole damn player misnamed as a library, then
> > > it makes sense to import the small amount of useful code to mplayer
> > > cvs rather than depending on their junk which probably has symbol
> > > clashes at link time because of excessive globals (just a guess).
> > I didn't knew that, anyway, a smart decoder should be written for lavc.
> So should I remove it?

IMO leave it for now. It should at least be discussed more, and we
should probably wait to remove it until lavc has flac support.

Rich