Re: [xine-devel] plugin anomalies

[Miguel F. <mi...@ce...>]

On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 15:24, Michael Roitzsch wrote:
> > 3) we have some plugins twice:
> >   - there are 2 mpeg2 video decoders ("mpeg2"/"mpeg2new")
> >     libmpeg2new seems to be dead since approximately september,
> >     although all major codebase cleanups have been made there, too
> 
> James knows about that one, but I guess we should keep the old mpeg2 for 
> 1.0, since the knew one isn't tested as intensive as the current one.

agreed. we should try updating libmpeg2 after 1.0.

> >   - There are two "pcm" audio "decoders", libxineadec/pcm.c and
> >     liblpcm/xine_decoder.c.
> 
> Someone wrote pcm.c for some special case (from looking where it is 
> used, it has something to do with V4L) because he could not use liblpcm 
> for some reason. It should be merged into liblpcm ASAP.

no, it shouldn't be merged. there is no reason to have another buffer
type for PCM, it just need to be removed. and v4l plugin needs to be
fixed...

regards,

Miguel