Re: mplayer on ppc G3

Matthias Saou <thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.freshrpms.user,gmane.spam.detected
Message-ID <20060117171202.14680ac5@python2>
Ralf Ertzinger wrote :

> Matthias Saou wrote:
> 
> > - Either MPlayer has a way of enabling some kind of runtime CPU detection
> >   as it does for x86.
> 
> It does runtime detection, and correctly detemines that it runs on a 
> non-altivec capable machine. I suspect the compiler decided that some 
> altivec would be pretty neat at some point. Do you have a -debuginfo 
> package for your mplayer?

Go through /pub/freshrpms/ on ftp.freshrpms.net and you'll find the
debuginfo, as well as a .log.gz of the build where you'll be able to check
if any -maltivec and such were used ;-)

Matthias

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