Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 11:46:02 +0200 From: Alexandr Kovalenko <never@nevermind.kiev.ua> To: "Thomas E. Zander" <riggs@rrr.de> Cc: Oliver Braun <obraun@FreeBSD.ORG>, ports-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/mplayer Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/multimedia/mplayer/files patch-ad Message-ID: <20030211094602.GA26500@nevermind.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <20030211013436.GB576@trillian.mugiri.au> References: <200302101928.h1AJS6Gs088748@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030210200115.GA832@nevermind.kiev.ua> <20030211013436.GB576@trillian.mugiri.au>
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Hello, Thomas E. Zander! On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 09:34:36AM +0800, you wrote: > Am Mon, dem 10. Feb 2003, um 22:01 +0200 Uhr schrubte Alexandr Kovalenko > zum Thema [Re: cvs commit: ports/multimedia/mplayer Makefile distinfo pkg-plist ports/multimedia/mplayer/files patch-ad]: > > > We should also note that if you are planning to play QT movies, you > > should add CPU_ENABLE_SSE to your kernel so that mplayer will not crash > > attempting to play it (looks like either mplayer or QT win32 libs can't > > detect if SSE is enabled). > > No, that is not a qt-specific problem. It does. Every other format I've tried worked well without this option. > Mplayer checks which cpu it is running on and assumes (as I would do if > I were a program :-) ) that it can use SSE if it is a SSE-capable CPU. > But because evidently nobody *reads* something about kernel building > before doing it, we dropped a note to the pkg-message file quite some > time ago which recommends adding this option for this particular > problem (crash because of instruction set). > > So, if one insists NOT zu tune the kernel config for his CPU *and* NOT > to read the pkg-message (which is always shown when installing > mplayer), what else should we do? [dd sarcasm] > Sorry for the sarcasm in this mail, but this is really a "problem" that > could be solved by RTFM in 100% of the appearing cases. > Some guys just should *read* the message, that's why it is existing... Yes, I know about this message. -- NEVE-RIPE, will build world for food Ukrainian FreeBSD User Group http://uafug.org.ua/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-ports" in the body of the message
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