[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] altivec support for netbsd/powerpc platforms

Alex Beregszaszi alex at fsn.hu
Tue Apr 6 13:16:44 CEST 2004


Hi,

> this is all i need to get altivec support working on netbsd (with a
> working altivec GCC :-) for mplayer.  it provides 1.5-2x speed up for
> watching and encoding large movies (eg, dvd size) and makes my mac
> actually able to actually play them sanely :-)  unfortunately, it
> requires GCC 3.4 for netbsd, GCC 3.3 has internal compiler errors. 
> the (new, non-apple) altivec code for GCC wasn't really stable in 3.3
> it seems..
Btw, if this is true, it's not really netbsd dependant imho, or am I
false?

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