[FFmpeg-devel] [RFC] the future of libamr

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 10:24:29PM +0200, Benoit Fouet wrote:
> Diego Biurrun wrote :
> > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 01:03:16PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> >   
> >> On 6/8/2009 12:37 PM, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:02:00PM -0700, Baptiste Coudurier wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> On 6/8/2009 3:28 AM, Ramiro Polla wrote:
> >>>>         
> >>>>> In my win32 builds[0] I don't include libamr. The only people that
> >>>>> bother to contact me asking specifically for amr encoding are
> >>>>> commercial. If they spent their effort on an open source encoder that
> >>>>> would be much better. So, I'm for this removal...
> >>>>>           
> >>>> Or they can stop using FFmpeg.
> >>>>         
> >>> Your point being?
> >>>       
> >> My point being that we lost one user, which we could have easily kept.
> >
> > Sorry, but this is nonsense.  There is absolutely no indication that
> > they stopped using FFmpeg because AMR support was not available.  And
> > what else would they use?  There is no alternative that comes even close
> > to FFmpeg's feature set.
> 
> if one of the feature they really need is AMR-WB encoding, they will.

I'd rather think they would stick to the stable release instead.

> > Also, the primary goal of this project is not to get as many users as
> > possible at any cost.  Otherwise we would have included a DLL loader a
> > long time ago.
> 
> as that was already mentioned earlier, there is no real cost, as the
> encoder is already in place.

The cost is credibility when dealing with license violators among other
things.

Diego