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Date:      Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:46:02 +0200
From:      Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua>
To:        "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de>
Cc:        Oliver Braun <obraun@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/mplayer Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/multimedia/mplayer/files patch-ad
Message-ID:  <20030211094602.GA26500@nevermind.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <20030211013436.GB576@trillian.mugiri.au>
References:  <200302101928.h1AJS6Gs088748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030210200115.GA832@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030211013436.GB576@trillian.mugiri.au>

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Hello, Thomas E. Zander!

On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:34:36AM +0800, you wrote:

> Am Mon, dem 10. Feb 2003, um 22:01 +0200 Uhr schrubte Alexandr Kovalenko
> zum Thema [Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/mplayer Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/multimedia/mplayer/files patch-ad]:
> 
> > 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.

It does. Every other format I've tried worked well without this option.

> 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.
> But because evidently nobody *reads* something about kernel building
> before doing it, we dropped a note to the pkg-message file quite some
> time ago which recommends adding this option for this particular
> problem (crash because of instruction set).
> 
> So, if one insists NOT zu tune the kernel config for his CPU *and* NOT
> to read the pkg-message (which is always shown when installing
> mplayer), what else should we do?

[dd sarcasm]

> Sorry for the sarcasm in this mail, but this is really a "problem" that
> could be solved by RTFM in 100% of the appearing cases.
> Some guys just should *read* the message, that's why it is existing...

Yes, I know about this message.

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