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

[D Richard Felker III]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:10:44AM +0100, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> 
> >is there any way to make it runtime-configurable? imo something like
> >this should be runtime configurable. if it's compiletime you get into
> >a problem about which mode distros, etc. will ship, and whether users
> >can rely on it to be fast or high quality...
> > 
> >
> 
> Agreed.  It would be very nice to be able to run under different 
> qualities for different purposes.  And for the intended use, it would 
> also be nice to even be able to tweak it at runtime so that we can cut 
> back the quality if the CPU load is too high.

he already added runtime config! :)

> I could see for example that perhaps music might end up using a higher 
> quality than video (on the dubious assumption that we are more likely to 
> have spare CPU when there is no video)

not at all dubious. right now snow will use at least 80% cpu for
decoding even on your insane computer...

> I think this looks extremely promising though.  Thanks Michael! 
> 
> By the way, without looking are there significant differences between 
> CVS and a recent libavcodec as would be pulled down by a packaged 
> mplayer?  I'm just trying to understand if something critical was fixed 
> recently for example?

i don't think there are critical _fixes_, so much, but nice new
features like decimated decoding. lavf probably has a lot more actual
fixes.

rich