[MPlayer-dev-eng] PPC and x86 dll

[Jan Knutar]

On Tuesday 20 December 2005 17:21, Diego Biurrun wrote:

> You cannot run Intel x86 binaries on a PowerPC, you need to have
> processor emulation.  Wine is - more or less - an operating system
> emulator.  What you would need is both Wine AND a processor emulator.

Possibly qemu (and qemu-user) could do this, the speed will of course
be dreadful when running x86 on PPC. Might be usable for installing, say
Linux, in qemu, and transcoding material playable only with x86 codecs
into formats that have crossplatform decoders.