[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] FreeBSD DVD Fix

[Attila Kinali]

On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:20:10PM -0700, rcooley wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:08:18 +0200
> Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:
> 
> > at least -O2 
> > should not break most compilers (not to mention that you simply 
> > shouldn't use a broken compiler...)
> 
> I'd say you're obviously a Linux user :-)   On the BSDs (and likely
> other platforms as well), it's not unusual to find that gcc is
> perpetually broken in some minor ways.  I know I gave up on a
> /etc/mk.conf entirely on OpenBSD, because there are just too many
> applications that won't work when compiled with "-march=" set to
> anything.  Things like -O2 also cause some programs not to work.  

This doesnt justify adding workarounds in mplayer just because
gcc is broken. If gcc is broken, then gcc should be fixed.
I really hate this BSD attitude to not touch any software that
comes from linux or has any connections to GNU.
Sorry, but we live in one OSS world, if we dont work together 
and keep on fighting against each other we will just screw up
the whole movement and end up using propreatary software again.

I can understand that people around BSD dont like gnu because of
gpl which is only one way compatible with bsd style licenses,
but it would be better to educate people why gpl is bad instead of
ignoring the issue.

> However, I've used MPlayer on FreeBSD, and it's not slow as hell, so I'd
> have to say they are doing optimizations, although probably outside
> of MPlayer's configure script.  Maybe they are enabling runtime CPU
> detection...  I don't currently have any machines running FreeBSD, so I
> can't comment any more than that.

Try to run mplayer on a borderline box, ie one that is just as
fast as needed to play a video. You will notice that 1% of speed
change can make the video unwatchable.

Beside, i heard a lot of reports that mplayer is slower on
*bsd than on linux (on the same hw), though i dont know whether 
it's still true and what the reason was/is.

			Attila Kinali