[vlc-devel] GSoC patch mpg123 question

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

----- Message d'origine -----
> I wrote the plugin that uses libmpg123 instead of libmad, but I'm
> having problems testing it. At first I had the avcodec plugin getting
> in the way so I disabled that but the mpeg_audio plugin doesn't seem
> to be working since VLC keeps telling me that it can't find a decoder
> plugin to handle the fourcc "mpga". Without mpeg_audio I don't think
> the current libmad plugin is even working.

That would be a side effect of the horrible SPDIF hack whereby libmad is an audio filter instead off a codec.

If you implement mpg123 as an audio filter, then you probably need to hard code it in the mpeg_audio dummy "codec" just like mad.