On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 9:28 AM, Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying to encode with mencoder and the xvid codec(*), i discovered that it > is awfully slow (around 3 frames/s on my P4 machine). So i played a > little bit with the options in the Makefile without any success. Finally > i understood that the cause was that the build system requires nasm, but > doesn't use it! There are several assembly files in the xvid codec which > are not used due to that. The solution i have found by looking at the > configure script is to install the yasm port. Then the build system > picks the yasm dependency and compiles the assembly files, which enables > SSE instructions. The net result is that, without any other tweak, i now > encode the same stuff at 11 frames/s. > > So to be short, multimedia/xvid should require a dependency on yasm. > > (*) in find that the end result is better (less artifacts at the same > bitrate) with xvid than with lavc.
Standard questions: 1. O which architectures did you test this? 2. Did you send a PR? 3. The port currently has no maintainer. Would you like to take it? :-) -- cd /usr/ports/sysutils/life make clean _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"