Re: mplayer / amd patch

On Wednesday, 03 January 2007 at 15:18, Russell McOrmond wrote:
> jeff wrote:
> >In October a freshrpms user reported a problem with AMD + mplayer + mp3 
> >= noise. I have a user reporting the exact same thing and the workaround 
> >works for him too:
> >
> >http://lists.freshrpms.net/pipermail/freshrpms-list/2006-October/014263.html 
> 
>   Do we know whether the mplayer team is working on this?  The 
> workaround was to comment out to large chunks of assembly code -- it 
> seems odd to me that just removing code would "fix" the problem.

But that's the fix that was applied. The code in question was old and
didn't make any sense.

http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/mp3lib/dct64_3dnow.c?r1=18946&r2=20520
http://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/trunk/mp3lib/dct64_k7.c?r1=18838&r2=20520

Regards,
R.

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