[Ffmpeg-devel] PPC Optimisation

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  I only have a G3 myself but need to enable Altivec
for other users of my program.

Am afraid that compiling it using your G3 will not enable AltiVec optimization.

As how I view ffmpeg now, it is highly customised to the machine you
are compiling on, unless you specifically made it not to do so.

As for compiling an AltiVec optimized version of your prog (whatever
it maybe); and still runs fine on G3. Yes it is possible. Apple have
documentation on this (Ref link below). I am not sure whether it has
been included into ffmpeg code. But I believe it has (gut feeling) as
it is a few lines of code only. Developers may confirm this. :)

Ref: http://developer.apple.com/hardware/ve/g3_compatibility.html

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On 1/12/06, Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 08:15:00PM +0800, Colin Ward wrote:
> >
> >   In order to enable PPC specific optimisations (excluding Altivec) is it
> > sufficient to simply #define ARCH_POWERPC in my config.h file?
>
> Running ./configure should be enough.  It will detect your CPU and add
> optimizations to config.mak.
>
> Diego
>
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