On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 01:49 PM, Chris & Amanda Dellario wrote:
In scanning through the mad-dev archives, I read that FPM_DEFAULT produces slow and not very accurate decoding whereas FPM_INTEL is fast and accurate, but the provided msvc project file uses FPM_DEFAULT. Is this because FPM_INTEL assumes gcc and uses gcc-specific extensions? Is there any way to use something faster than FPM_DEFAULT in VC? I'm very concerned with speed because I'll need to use lazy decoding to ensure smooth frame rates.
In the Debug configuration, the MSVC++ project will use FPM_DEFAULT, but it should use FPM_INTEL in the Release configuration. I think you can safely use FPM_INTEL even in the Debug configuration, although it may make debugging the library difficult -- not that you should need to do this.
I initially used mpglib (a subsection of mpg123) for this project of mine, and got the lazy decoding working nicely when I discovered that mpglib doesn't support joint stereo. Does libmad fully support joint stereo, intensive stereo, and VBR?
Yes, libmad fully supports M/S and intensity joint stereo, VBR, and even free format streams.
Cheers,