[MPlayer-users] configure script patch

Guillaume POIRIER poirierg at gmail.com
Wed Aug 17 17:19:36 CEST 2005


Hi,

On 8/17/05, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 07:48:43AM -0600, Kevin DeKorte wrote:
> > On Wednesday 17 August 2005 01:16 am, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
[..]
> > I removed libGL.a and re-ran configure (the stock one from mplayer) and OpenGL
> > on my system was not detected. I applied my patch that changes -lGL to -lGLU
> > and OpenGL was detected and mplayer did run with accelerated OpenGL.
> >
> > You were correct in that the libGL.a on my system was the one from Mesa and
> > that is why OpenGL did not work properly (it was unaccellerated)
> >
> > Perhaps there could be an additional test that if detection of OpenGL fails
> > when using libGL it could be tried again with libGLU and see if that works?
> > That way it will only fall back to libGLU if needed?
> 
> Again, ATI needs to fix their broken crap. A simple ln -s libGLU.so
> libGL.so (or .a, whatever) will probably do. Anyway, GL output is
> slower and lower quality than normal video overlay, so why even
> bother?

Maybe because Reimar improved it considerably, which makes it now a
reasonable alternative to other VOs? ;-)

Guillaume

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