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Re: Bug#144107: ITP: mplayer -- Movie player for Linux



On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 06:40:42PM -0400, Shaya Potter wrote:
> from the homepage
> 
> *  100% GPL - yeah, so what?
> * runtime CPU detection code - any x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any"
> other x86 CPU

As noted in the mplayer faq, mplayer _does_ "run faster" when built
locally and executed. My experience with it corroborates this
observation. The cpu detection works, but you'll get better performance
using the --disable-runtime-cpudetection configure option.

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