On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:55:46PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > John Hedges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > [snip] > > > >> > However it might be that the splay decoder is comparable to that of > >> > mp3lib. My quick and not so reliable tests showed it to be about 15% > >> > slower but that was comparing a stock i386 splay with an optimised i686 > >> > mplayer. > >> > > >> > I'm more than happy with splay and have used it for years. Well worth a > >> > sponsor - I'm sure you'll agree ;) > >> > > >> > Cheers > >> > > >> > John > >> > >> Maybe you can compare them a bit more and if mpglib is faster or > >> comparatively the same you could port splay over to that > >> library. Better to have common code for a common problem. > >> > >> MfG > >> Goswin > > > > I doubt the output from splay is byte for byte identical to that from > > mpglib (mp3lib?) so the comparison is likely to be subjective. > > yes mp3lib, sorry. > > > If you can give me good evidence that mpglib is better than splay then I > > might consider creating a new CLI project based on mp3lib (if there > > aren't any out there already). > > Support for amd64 and powerpc would be two major factors. :)
I like this approach to bugfixing ;) Perhaps I'll follow your advice if there isn't an easy fix for these problem archetectures.