[MPlayer-users] MPplayer and installing a new gcc version

[D Richard Felker III]

On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:52:23PM -0700, RC wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:35:48 -0400
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> 
> > huh?? you said something about a gcc 2.95 bug. this was just a bug in
> > demux_mkv.c, plain and simple. nothing was being compiled wrong.
> 
> Well those bugs didn't seem to show-up when compiled with gcc 3.2.2. 
> Call it whatever you want.

which bug? mkv setting wrong aspect??
the code CLEARLY set the wrong aspect. if it "worked" with gcc3, then
gcc miscompiled the code!! ;)

> > > I'm just disabling libmpeg2 via configure.  Making that the default
> > > would probably eliminate hundreds of e-mails on the -user list
> > > alone...
> > 
> > and make mplayer unusably slow....
> 
> Huh?  ffmpeg is plenty fast.  Slightly faster than libmpeg2, according
> to the benchmarks that showed up on mplayer-dev. 

quite the opposite. ffmpeg is massively slower, as in unplayable dvds
versus playable dvds. and libmpeg2 was even faster before someone
stupidly went and "upgraded" it while i was away this summer.

rich