[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] configure: ssse3 check

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 5/17/07, Zuxy Meng <zuxy.meng at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2007/5/17, Benjamin Zores <ben at geexbox.org>:
> >
> > Also add SSSE3 to banner CPUflags.
>
> Well, I'm pretty reluctant to do that, unless the marketing guys ask me to :-)
>
> In fact, mplayer's CPUflags banner isn't 100% correct: mplayer checks
> gCpuCaps to show proper flags, but ffmpeg always performs runtime
> capability check. So even if you've built mplayer without SSE support,
> or your OS doesn't support SSE (Windows 95? Linux 2.12.0?), ffmpeg
> will nevertheless try to use SSE optimized routines.
>
> And the banner is already quite long!

That's the price to pay for having a shitty ISA!
Here in the PPC world, we only have:
MPlayer dev-SVN-r23255-4.0.1 (C) 2000-2007 MPlayer Team
AltiVec found
CPU: PowerPC

:o)


BTW, I also vote for making Zuxy a committer, but I'd like to point
out I proposed this several month ago already, but nothing happened
back then :-(

Guillaume
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