[MPlayer-dev-eng] new Altivec patches and G3

[Diego Biurrun]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 04:09:32PM -0600, timwoj at ieee.org wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:33:03AM -0700, Tim wrote:
> >>
> >>[littlegeek:~/main] tim# ./mplayer SUBARUSVXREADING6DRI.avi
> >>MPlayer dev-CVS-060219-09:50-4.0.0 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team
> >>AltiVec not found
> >>CPU: PowerPC
> >>
> >>91 audio & 206 video codecs
> >
> >You have a codecs.conf file somewhere.  Remove it, it's most likely the
> >cause for your problems.
> 
> Removed, and the same result.  The codecs.conf file came from the CVS etc 
> directory, so I would hope it's relatively up to date unless the 
> codecs.conf file isn't really used anymore.

codecs.conf is evil.  Don't use it.  Ever.

> As I had said before, the release version chooses the right colorspace and 
> the video plays.  I haven't tried playing it on my G4 with the CVS 
> version, so I don't know if it's a G3 vs. G4 thing.  Here's a link to the 
> video I was testing with:
> 
> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4126826959859801918&q=subaru+svx+reading+6

FWIW, SUBARUSVXREADING6DRI.avi works fine for me on my G4, PPC Linux.

Diego