[MPlayer-dev-eng] OSD problem (bug) stops (loops?) mplayer

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 01:00:21AM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006 13:54:35 +0200
> Diego Biurrun <diego at biurrun.de> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, Oct 05, 2006 at 08:59:18PM +0200, Paul TT wrote:
> > > On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 00:10:58 +0200
> > > Luca Barbato <lu_zero at gentoo.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Paul TT wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > no, it isn't. slow, i mean :-)
> > > > > with altivec enabled, anyway, it's faster, it makes up a lot of
> > > > > artifacts and colors corruption... I didn't have the time, yet,
> > > > > to find out if it's a xorg/x11 problem or mplaye rproblem, so I
> > > > > didn't fill out a bug report bout it...
> > > > 
> > > > Please send me screenshot, how to reproduce them and samples used
> > > > to make them...
> > > > 
> > > it seems to be a compiler related problems, this one, too.
> > > compiled with gcc 3.3.6 images rot frame-by-frame, then restart to
> > > be clean, going on this way...
> > > compiled with gcc 4.0.3 the problem disappears.
> > > so probably in the documentation the line which says that can be
> > > used gcc version 2.95 and >=3.3
> > > on linux/ppc should be used 4.0. :-)
> > 
> > Have you tried gcc 3.4?
> 
> with gcc-3.4 and altivec enabled, rotten images go away. anyway the
> problem with osd blocking all, when compiled with -O4 remains.
> so, on linux PPC, actually i can compile, with -O4, altivec, and osd
> workin, only with at least gcc version 4. i am using 4.0.3, but i can
> assume that with gcc-4 works good.

I've updated the docs to recommend 4.x on PowerPC...

Diego