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

[John Hedges <john@drystone.co.uk>]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:55:46PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> 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. :)

I like this approach to bugfixing ;) Perhaps I'll follow your advice if
there isn't an easy fix for these problem archetectures.