[MPlayer-users] Mplayer BUG Athlon

[Dean S. Messing]

 :: > Hello,
 :: > here is my BUG-Report:
 :: > 
 :: > since I have changed to a new mainboard (K7S5A) + ATHLON XP2200+ CPU I
 :: > can't start mplayer anymore.  I have it compiled with
 :: > mmx,3dnow,... without mmx,...  but nothing happened. I think it is a
 :: > bug in your code. For more detailes please tell me, what can I do.
 :: > 
 :: > I have trouble with playing ANY video (avi,mpg,...)  mplayer was
 :: > compiled on the same Computer were it run!
 :: 
 :: There is definitely something screwy regarding Athlons in the mplayer
 :: codebase.  For quite a while alternating releases would waver between
 :: compiling and running okay and not compiling at all.


I was getting the infamous

     postprocess_template.c:2910: can't find a register in
         class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'

error when I first started trying to build MPlayer on my Athlon system
back in early December.

This was using gcc 3.2.  I finally "fixed" the problem by
recompiling the compiler for my Athlon system.
After that I've had no problems compiling MPlayer.  But I must
admit, I've only built three versions since then.


                            Dean S. Messing
                            Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab
                            Information Systems Technologies Dept.
                            Sharp Laboratories of America