[MPlayer-dev-eng] tremor for vorbis decoding?

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:30:25PM -0500, D Richard Felker III wrote:
> Hey, I was just looking into adding support for the "tremor"
> integer-only vorbis decoder to mplayer, since the current
> implementation is so horribly slow. I just started looking at it, but
> it seems like tremor mixes the demuxer and decoder into a common
> interface, which would be a mess. Has anyone else looked into it at
> all to see if it looks feasible to use tremor with mplayer? If it's a
> problem in its current form, I'd sorta be inclined to add it to
> mplayer cvs and fork it, adding some serious optimizations to make it
> perform well...

BTW, just so it's clear that supporting tremor is a good idea: the
example program included with tremor takes 27.2-27.5 seconds to
decode the ogg file I tested with, as opposed to 41.5 seconds with
stock oggdec. This is on my K6-2/450, and no optimizations whatsoever
in tremor.

Rich