[MPlayer-dev-eng] mpg123 / mp3lib 64bit SSE code

[Felipe Contreras]

On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
> Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> >> In any case, FFmpeg can already be used to run proprietary software.
>> >
>> > FFmpeg cannot be distributed if it supports libamr (the only proprietary
>> > software supported), so I don't think that is a useful argument.
>>
>> I was thinking on VDPAU. The software runs in a different processor,
>> but it still can be proprietary software, right?
>
> FFmpeg currently does not support VDPAU. (I know there are competent sources
> claiming differently.)
> MPlayer does.
>
> Please note that if it will be supported, the proprietary driver does not run on
> a different processor than FFmpeg (or currently MPlayer), so this will not make
> any difference.
>
> What makes a difference, afaict, is that, once VDPAU is supported, FFmpeg will
> still be a fully working transcoding utility without reduced usability if you
> don't have binary drivers installed.

But FFmpeg would allow to use proprietary code, that runs on the GPU, right?

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Felipe Contreras