[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix for -srate bug

[D Richard Felker III]

On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 10:53:50AM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> >>Libsamplerate seems to be the highest quality 
> >>resampler out there, and most likely somewhat better than the libavcodec 
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >i don't see how it can be any better, since lavc's can do any linear
> >filter. and i'm against adding more dependencies, especially for stuff
> >like this that should be 'universally' supported.
> > 
> >
> 
> Well, I am not familiar with the lavc filter, and it depends what you 
> mean by linear filter, but libsamplerate is doing fir filtering 
> (polyphase I guess) to maintain such a high quality.

umm, any decent resampler does fir, and fir is of course a linear
filter.

[...]

> Does that make sense?

yes but it doesn't make this lib any better than anything else.
why not stop reading the propaganda and learn something about the
computational task you want done...?

rich