[Ffmpeg-devel] configure misses libdts

[Michel Bardiaux]

Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:34:00 +0200
> Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> 
>> Hi
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:53:00AM +0200, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
>>> Guillaume POIRIER skrev:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> On 4/24/07, Benjamin Larsson <banan at ludd.ltu.se> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>> Diego Biurrun skrev:
>>>>>     
>>>>>> Given that we have a native DTS/DCA decoder now, does it make sense to
>>>>>> keep supporting libdts/libdca?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Diego
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>> No, we should remove libdts/dca support and focus on improving the
>>>>> native decoder.
>>>>>     
>>>> Mmmm.... but what happens if you find a sample that doesn't work with
>>>> native decoder; how do you compare it with libdca? Doesn't it make
>>>> sense to keep support for libdca in that specific case?
>>>>
>>>> Guillaume
>>>>   
>>> Well libdca has it's own front end, you could compare with that. Keeping 
>>> the support will just trigger emails like this and if the native decoder 
>>> doesn't work well then people will just enable libdca and never report 
>>> any problems with the native decoder.
>> agree, lets drop libd(ts/ca) support
> 
> 
> agree.
> The attached patch does just that (should be followed by a
> svn rm libavcodec/dtsdec.c).
> 
> Aurel
> 

I made enough noise about swscale being GPL, so in fairness I have to 
cheer when the GPL libdts is replaced by the LGPL native. Yay!

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