[maemo-developers] Python and GStreamer

[From: Jesse Guardiani]

Koen Kooi wrote:
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> Jesse Guardiani schreef:
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>>>     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?
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>> 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.
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> use libmad (-ac mad), that works great on arm and x86.
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Any cpu savings over ffmp3? The mplayer maintainers tell me that ffmp3 
is the best choice on ARM.


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Jesse Guardiani
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