[MPlayer-users] Building with SSE3 support

[The Wanderer]

Andrew Berg wrote:

> Jason Garrett-Glaser wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 4:40 AM, Andrew Berg
>> <bahamutzero8825 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm building MPlayer 1.0rc2
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure that rc2 is so old that it doesn't actually have a 
>> significant amount of SSSE3 code to begin with.
> 
> I didn't realize that 1.0rc2 was not a recent release. Authors
> usually have at least source tarballs of releases that aren't over a
> year old available. How am I to know if I what I get from a snapshot
> is even remotely usable?

The MPlayer codebase is intended to be stable and usable at all times.
If a randomly selected checkout isn't completely so, you can almost
certainly find one which is within the previous week.

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