Re: Bug#144107: ITP: mplayer -- Movie player for Linux
from the homepage
* 100% GPL - yeah, so what?
* runtime CPU detection code - any x86 MPlayer binary can run on "any"
other x86 CPU
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 18:34, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 22, 2002 at 02:26:30PM -0500, Luis Bustamante wrote:
> > MPlayer is a movie player for Linux.
>
> http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS/faq.html says:
>
> Q: Are there rpm/deb/... packages of MPlayer?
> A: You can make a .deb package for yourself, check the Debian
> packaging section. It's strongly discouraged to use precompiled
> packages of MPlayer, since it (currently) highly depends on
> compile-time options and optimizations! Precompiled packages are
> COMPLETELY unsupported by the MPlayer team!
>
> Also http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/users_against_developers.html#binary:
>
> * MPlayer's speed (MMX, SSE, fastmemcpy, etc) optimizations are
> determined during compilation. Thus a compiled binary contains very
> processor-specific code. An MPlayer binary compiled for K6 will die
> on Pentiums and vice versa. This has to be workarounded by runtime
> detection, which is not an easy thing to do becase it causes massive
> speed decrease. If you don't believe (it was explained in details
> 10000 times on mplayer-users, search the archive), solve it and send
> us a patch. Someone begun work on it, but disappeared since then.
> * MPlayer's video/audio system is not plugin based. It is compiled
> into the binary, thus making the binary depend on various libraries
> (the GUI depends on GTK, DivX4 depends on libdivxdecore, SDL depends
> on libSDL, every SDL release contains an unique bug that has to be
> workarounded during compiletime, X11 output compiles differently for
> X3 and X4, etc). You may say: yes, let's make 30 versions of
> downloadable binaries! We won't. We will make these stuff pluggable
> in the future.
>
> Do you have a response to these? It sounds at the moment that the
> mplayer developers would rather not see any binary packages; at least,
> if they've changed their mind about this, they haven't updated their
> documentation.
>
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> Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
>
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