[MPlayer-dev-eng] RFC on libspe2 detection

[Luca Barbato]

Rasmus Rohde wrote:
> Hopefully we will at some point see some additions to mplayer, which
> will make use of libspe2 (the SPE library for the Cell BE).

Great!

> I already have a beta vo_fbdevps3.c, which makes use of the SPEs for
> scaling and color conversion. Also it uses some features found
> specifically in the PS3 framebuffer.

Nice, would be hard split the scaling&color conversion and have it also
in swscale? (I know it won't be _that_ easy)

> The attached patch adds detection for libspe2 to the configure script.

I sent a patch to provide a pkg-config to libspe2 recently (while
starting something on ffmpeg)

> Is this the way to go our should we instead detect the target is e.g.
> PS3 and then add libspe2 as a needed library?

I like this way better.

lu

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Luca Barbato

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