[maemo-developers] Python and GStreamer

[From: Jesse Guardiani]

Koen Kooi wrote:
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>> Koen Kooi wrote:
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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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> No idea on that, but I'm wary of anything starting with 'ff' that pretends to be a shared lib.
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OK.... I don't follow your logic there.

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Jesse Guardiani
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