[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] encoding MP2 with Toolame

[Nico Sabbi]

>On Sunday, 25 July 2004 at 16:17, Rathan wrote:>
>> 
>> This patch permits to encode to mp2 using Toolame
>> (a much better encoder than libavcodec).
>
>Are there any test results to support your statement?


no formal test that I know of, but just compare some
encode (at any bitrate) with the two codecs and you will hear a "sound"
difference.


>
>> You need a librarized version of toolame, such as 0.2m-beta-*
>> available here http://users.tpg.com.au/adslblvi/
>> 
>> At the moment only CBR is supported; there is some support for vbr
>> encoding,
>> but it doesn't work yet.
>> 
>> In mencoder.c I copied all the AVI specific assignments from
>> the code that calls libavcodec; I'm not familiar with that
>> abomination, so I hope someone will review that code (TIA :) )
>> 
>> The requisites are:
>> 
>> - during configure you have to pass --with-toolamedir parameter
>(where
>> you compiled toolame), e.g.:
>> 
>> ./configure --with-toolamedir=/path/to/toolame/libtoolame/
>
>Can't you make this optional? Configure should search for toolame in
>standard
>system libdirs and includedirs first.
>
>R.


Ok, tomorrow.
Strange, I never received Rathann's mail: I had to copy&paste
it from the archive.

	Nico