Re: RFS: splay -- Sound player for MPEG-1,2 layer 1,2,3

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

John Hedges <john@drystone.co.uk> 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. :)

> Cheers
>
> John

MfG
        Goswin