[Mplayer-dev-eng] MPlayer for IRIX

[Christoph Lampert]

>> So if you really want to work on a mpg12player (Mplayer?) port, how about a 
>> all-UN*X version, with lowlevel extensions for the different systems like 
IRIX, 
>> Solaris, AIX? It's such a pity that MPlayer doesn't work that way (although 
>> there are very good reasons of course).
>That would definitely be a reasonable long term goal - but I have to hand
>in a project in 3-4 weeks that must (or: I would like to) contain a
>working MPEG2-player, and therefore I won't be able to spend too much time
>on it ... 

Well, it might be a start to seperate IRIX (e.g. sound?) from non-IRIX 
(e.g. mpeg2dec?) parts. One problem with porting MPlayer (I think) is, that
everything is mixed somehow. That is fine for speed of course, but I think
most IRIX machines are now fast enough to decode realtime even without speed 
hacks. Also, the IRIX compiler is soooooo great ;-) 

>> _Then_ code should finally be threaded (and thread-safe), because multi-CPU 
is 
>> very common on IRIX and other UN*Xes as well. 
>Well, threading is no problem for me - I have done that before ;) 

Just thought I'd mention it... 

>> I can also do a little work on the Solaris-parts (Sun-Video-Lib e.g.)
>But: MPlayer was already supporting MLib, I thought ? 

I am not so very sure about that. Arpi, when did anybody last try to run 
MPlayer on Intel-Solaris? It's in the configure-script, but I never heard 
about anybody using it...

>> gruel (the german <-> swedisch connection)
>Ah, interesting ! Seems like the German speaking computer science
>students have a favor for sticking to Sweden - I am from Austria, have
>been studying here in Linköping for the last... erm ... four (four !?!?
>Time goes) ... years :-) 

Ich bin nur zu Gast, ein Jahr als Doktorand in Goeteborg. Das ganze endet im 
August, weil mich das Wetter im letzten Oktober zu sehr geschockt hat, als dass 
ich noch ein Herbst hier verbringen wollte... Ausserdem bin ich Mathematiker, 
nicht Informatiker ;-p

Back to englisch:

hejda,

Christoph

-- 
Dipl. math. Christoph Lampert (complex analysis, integral formulae)
Email: gruel at gmx.de                |     Email: lampert at math.chalmers.se


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