Re: mplayer / divx
On Wednesday 29 August 2001 12:06 am, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> The *right* thing to do about the whole IA32 optimization issue is
> to compile *all* the cores in and let the program chose the
> appropriate one based on the results of the CPUID instruction. This is
> what the package zsnes (that I maintain) does. But this has to come
> from upstream. I really ought to request this feature from them and
> hope they implement it before I try to package mplayer. As for the
> opendivx stuff, I tried very naively removing all references into the
> OpenDivX code (there were very few). This resulted in an X crash,
> indicating that the DivX code may be used more than I had thought.
> Whatever the problem is, it's going to take some human inspection. It
> could just be that it had been trying to, say, register the OpenDivX
> codec and my removal of a line of code right in the middle of that
> messed everything up. I'll have to look at it, or alternatively, it
> would be great if upstream cooperated with me and made it a
> configure-time option (thus making it easier to remove from the
> tarball). I'll have to ask them.
Why not just have two different packages? One optimized for i586 w/MMX and
one for i386. We've seen this before, most notably with the kernel packages.
Relatively easy to do.
- David Nusinow
krmt1984@ucla.edu
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