[FFmpeg-devel] [Ffmpeg-devel] configure misses libdts

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:44:17AM +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 01:23:53AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 01:24:54PM +0200, Aurelien Jacobs wrote:
> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:34:00 +0200
> > > Michael Niedermayer <michaelni at gmx.at> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 09:53:00AM +0200, Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> > > > > Guillaume POIRIER skrev:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 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?
> > > > > >>>
> > > > > >> 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?
> > > > > 
> > > > > 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).
> > 
> > Isn't somebody working on the multichannel problem?  And/or is it going
> > to get fixed faster if this gets applied?
> 
> yes, i think so too, as long as libfoobar can do something while native
> cannot removing libfoobar support will accelerate the implementation
> of that specific feature ...
> 
> its very simple "least work" behavior of humans, its significantly
> easier to switch the decoder/player than to submit a usefull bugrport or
> patch so people wont as long as they can switch ...

So do we have any kind of preference or decision for keeping libdts
support or not?

Diego