[MPlayer-users] Re: Issues using rebuild of 1.0pre7 w/ Unichrome XvMC

[Ivor Hewitt]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> One problem is that none of the dev have any hardware to test the
> patch (though I'm fairly confident it does work); the other problem is
> that the way the patch is written doesn't quite please the ppl who are
> in charge of that part of MPlayer,
>
In fact the "people" in charge of that part of MPlayer aren't happy with
that part of mplayer either. :)

> which means that the patch would 
> need to be re-written, which is very time consuming and is not likely
> to happen until pigs learn to fly (or that chicken grow teeth).
> 
...or the earths rotation slows and days grow to be 40 hours long....
although perhaps we'd have other problems to deal with rather then mpeg
acceleration.