On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 01:59:32PM +0100, yag wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know whether installing from source rather than > from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or > something else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing > mplayer's behavior, although compiling it myself gave me the choice > of fine tuning the available codecs as well as installing the very > latest version, for instance. I'm not sure mplayer is the right program to use for this purpose (comparing self-compiled vs. repository) unless you were to do a big transcoding job. Regardless, my understanding is the results are likely to be mixed. Its true that you can tweak compile-time options and possibily get better performance, but that's at the cost of convenience and possibly stability. THere are those who claim it really makes a difference and all that compile time is worth the few seconds you save later, but they mostly run gentoo ;) A
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