On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 10:15:43 (CEST), Rogério Theodoro de Brito
wrote:

> Hi, Reinhard.
>
> I don't have my G3 working right now (I hope to have it fixed very
> soon), but, if I recall correctly, the MPEG2 video part of
> ffmpeg/mplayer had some handwritten altivec stuff.

yes, but both ffmpeg and mplayer offer a configure option to avoid
emiting altivec code. Disabling altivec in the mplayer package
completely is probably going to make all G4 users very unhappy.

> As soon as I get that machine to work again, I will work on this, if you
> don't beat me to it.

thanks!

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4

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