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

[Diego Biurrun]

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 10:22:55PM +0800, Zuxy Meng wrote:
> 
> 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!

IMO it should only be printed in verbose mode, but tread carefully, this
is a religious bikeshed issue ...

Diego