On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 10:37:25AM +0100, Ghita Dinloboda wrote:
> Hi
> I compiled avifile 0.5.53 on a Cx 486 glibc 2.2.3 12M ram
Well I affraid you have choosen wrong player...
I guess 12MB is approximately the amount of memory that aviplay will
need just to play the movie with all its precaching & buffering.
(and you still have to have kernel & xfree somewhere :)
Also Cx 486 is probably the thing which would play just some 160x100 movies
anyway
> 1.It was _forcing_ the -m586 flag on a 486 which sholdn't happen.It
> shouldn't force architecture specific CFLAGS (or CXXFLAGS) when they are
> supplied by the user.
CFLAGS are fully respected by avifile-0.6
e.g. CFLAGS="-O2" configure
> 2.It seems like it was using MMX when dont't have such thing
well mmx will not be used if it's not detected.
> As far as i know running a program compiled for a better processor than the
> one present in the machine could lead to 'illegal instruction'.
> The executable died with segmentation fault.
Not sure - but don't you want to consider to bye a new hardware ?
If you really want to watch movies (and not some slideshow) there is
no other choice I would say
Or maybe try mplayer - they seem to enjoy to support such obsolete hardware
so give them some challanging inspiration :) - they support playback directly
to VESA card so you won't need xfree, gui and other things normal user will
use on todays hardware...
I really do not have time to support everything from i386 to P4, K5 - K7, Cx,
svga, ega, vesa, xfree - and as I'm programming this mostly for myself
I have completely different priorities...
(also I do not have access to such hardware anyway - the slowest CPU in
my range in P200MMX - and here aviplay still outperforms all other players
I know)
bye
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