[MPlayer-users] Building with SSE3 support

[Andrew Berg]

Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Andrew Berg <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm building MPlayer 1.0rc2 under Vista with a MinGW environment and I
> > have an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The configure script seems to ignore
> > the --enables-ssse3 switch (why 3 's'es?) and doesn't check for SSE3
> > support (and builds for pentium-m instead of prescott). It does, however
> > correctly detect my processor.
>
> SSSE3 and SSE3 are 2 different things:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE3
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSE3
>
> Yes, the naming scheme is ugly.
>   
Thanks. That explains it. It's too bad that there isn't a GCC for
Windows (out of alpha at least) that supports Core 2 optimizations. :-(
> RTFM:
> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/video-codecs.html#xvid
>   
:-[