From owner-cvs-ports Tue Feb 11 13:16:26 2003 Delivered-To: cvs-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7274B37B401; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:16:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp-relay.omnis.com (smtp-relay.omnis.com [216.239.128.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D74E743FAF; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:16:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from salty.rapid.stbernard.com (corp-2.ipinc.com [199.245.188.2]) by smtp-relay.omnis.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8636435CC; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:13:20 -0800 (PST) From: Wesley Peters Organization: Softweyr To: Stijn Hoop , "Thomas E. Zander" Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/mplayer Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/multimedia/mplayer/files patch-ad Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 13:13:17 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: Alexandr Kovalenko , Oliver Braun , ports-committers@freebsd.org, cvs-ports@freebsd.org, cvs-all@freebsd.org References: <200302101928.h1AJS6Gs088748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030211013436.GB576@trillian.mugiri.au> <20030211095745.GA17571@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030211095745.GA17571@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302111313.17510.wes@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday 11 February 2003 01:57, Stijn Hoop wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:34:36AM +0800, Thomas E. Zander wrote: > > Am Mon, dem 10. Feb 2003, um 22:01 +0200 Uhr schrubte Alexandr Kovalenko: > > > We should also note that if you are planning to play QT movies, you > > > should add CPU_ENABLE_SSE to your kernel so that mplayer will not > > > crash attempting to play it (looks like either mplayer or QT win32 > > > libs can't detect if SSE is enabled). > > > > No, that is not a qt-specific problem. > > Mplayer checks which cpu it is running on and assumes (as I would do if > > I were a program :-) ) that it can use SSE if it is a SSE-capable CPU. > > I think this is a bad assumption. There should be a mechanism for mplayer > to detect whether it can use SSE instructions without 'guessing' by > checking the CPU type. As another poster asked, how do I know I can > use the option? It's not exactly common knowledge that the kernel option > might be needed. Sounds like time for a read-only compile-time sysctl. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-ports" in the body of the message