[MPlayer-dev-eng] Runtime CPU detection and fastmemcpy

[Dominik Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 28 April 2002, Gabucino wrote:
> > so it doesn't add dependencies for the user. XVID could easily be
> > static linked too, but there may be some license issues remaining with
> > it -- be sure to check if you care.
> We shouldn't include xvid, for there are no reasons to do it.
>  - decoding : lavc is faster, _much more_ bugfree
>  - encoding : lavc is faster+better
> 
> Let's simplify our life.

OK, but I'll leave a build-time option, it doesn't hurt anyone, 'cause
it sits only in .spec.
 
> > No, dvdkit is part of the mplayer source tree, so no need to make a
> > separate package, unless you really insist on it.
> Yes, no need for separate package. Not if it would be possible.

Yes, I've just noticed. OK.

> > I doubt anyone cares about GGI for most practical purposes. Those who
> > want to play with it can compile mplayer themselves for sure.
> No GGI needed.

Very well, same as xvid above.

> > AFAIK, arts/nas/esd/etc are basically useless with mplayer since they
> Yes

OK.

> > Probably not needed, I think everything works fine with ALSA's OSS
> > emulation even if the user is using ALSA sound drivers. Again though,
> > wait for more opinions.
> Let's not include alsa support, alsa's OSS emulation works in MOST of the
> cases.

OK.
 
> > > I suppose I should include vorbis ogg.
> > Yeah.
> Precisely.

Done. 
 
> > > And, last but not least, what about win32/dshow codec support?
> > This doesn't require any external libraries, so you might as well
> > include it.
> Yes, include support. BTW most users don't need w32codecs by default,
> and if they don't know about it, they won't worry about it :)

OK.

> > NO. If you use --enable-runtime-detection, the code for all of them
> Yes, use ONLY --enable-runtime-detection

OK, I misunderstood Arpi. Thanks for clarification. 
 
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