[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] OpenBSD compile without MMX, OSS fixes

[Marcus]

Thus spake Arpi (arpi at thot.banki.hu):

> >     --disable-vidix \                                                              
> isn't vidix ported to openbsd?                                                       
Sorry I'm not sure. I haven't touched that because it simply did not
compile. My focus was to get an useable mplayer with basic functionality
really soon.
 
> > Description:                                                                       
> > The basic idea is to disable the *X86 macros to force the makefiles to             
> > compile this baby with the std. C versions of the code.                            
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> ehh. that's bad. VERY BAD.                                                           
I agree with You that it is bad. I would love to have a MMX/whatever
optimized version of the code. But I'm in great doubt that the OpenBSD
people will replace the system-compiler/assembler with a newer version.
OpenBSD people tend to do only things if it will help all supported
plattforms. I don't think that it is a smart strategy to require people
to install an addtitional compiler/asm/binutils only for mplayer.
 
> plain C is slow as hell, and not only slow, it's unusable slow even pn very          
> fast cpu                                                                             
I don't think so. Ok my machine is quite fast (a athlon 1.3) but I gave
this patch to a couple of friends with slower machines and it did the
job (a celeron 550 and a P3 600). They reported an average CPU load of
50% while watching high qualitiy mpeg4 movies. I don't think this is
BAD.

I think the point is: it's better to have a working version of mplayer
on OpenBSD-i386 than having none ;-)
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