[Mplayer-dev-eng] Hardware AC3 patch

[Felix Buenemann]

On Wednesday, 15. August 2001 20:30, Gábor Lénárt wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:36:45PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 07:25:59PM +0200, Arpi wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > hmm. you don't have AFMT_AC3 in includes.. old kernel?
> > >
> > > is 2.2.19 new enough?
> >
> > no.
> >
> > 2.4.x is new enough if you want multimedia under linux...
> > at least if you have p2/celeron or better cpu...
> >
> > 2.2.x is designed for 386-p1 systems, can't get usage of
> > stuff like SSE and direct rendering...
>
> Don't true in this form :)
> DRI presents in 2.2.19.
> 2.2.19 is more stable and over a hunderd of security holes were corrected
> which was found with varous security tools while 2.4.x hasn't been audited
> yet ... VM of 2.4.x is nice but uncompleted, and even kernel developers
> says that 2.4.x probably never will be stable enough in this area since
> major modification will be issued only in 2.5.x.
>
> New features are usually backported into 2.2.x too ...
> AND EVEN 2.2.x hasn't got perfect VM! (but much better fine tuned than
> 2.4.x's. not only swap, but VMA merging and so on). Alan Cox said that
> the last "lamost perfect" :)  VM was 2.0.x versions .... Now please don't
> be surprised that some guys maintanis 2.0.x kernel too, even nowdays!
>
> OK, this is not a flame list :) I'm using only 2.4.8 too :) for a while but
> there's something behind 2.2.19 too ...
I use 2.4.4 on laptop, 2.4.2 on server (newer ones -> kernel panics), and 
2.2.18 on Desktop, all work fine with MPlayer and SSE.
>
> - Gabor

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Best Regards,
   Felix

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