[maemo-developers] Python and GStreamer

[From: Koen Kooi]

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Jesse Guardiani schreef:

>>     And the related question is: given an existing program that sends
>>     stuff out to ALSA and doesn't use gstreamer, how difficult is it
>>     generally to port it so that it works properly?
> 
> No porting necessary, really. mplayer comes with a decoder called 
> libmp3. It's not optimized for ARM or anything, and it compiles without 
> any problems. We don't use it in Kagu for A2DP though because there is 
> another decoder out there called ffmp3 which doesn't use floating point 
> math, so it's a little more efficient on ARM.

use libmad (-ac mad), that works great on arm and x86.

regards,

Koen
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