[MPlayer-dev-eng] Postproc Hell..

[Ivan Kalvachev]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 16:05:38 +0100
Guillaume POIRIER <guillaume.poirier at etudiant.univ-rennes1.fr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Andrea Palmat_ wrote:
> 
> > i have many problems with postproc. Actually only if I use the 1.0pre4
> > version it works, with newer versions the colors are wrong and there are
> > many problems with avi files (DIVX, XVID and so on). If I compile the
> > altivec versions the problems remains.
> 
> FSF is known to produce such artifacts on PowerPC...
> Try using Apple's GCC if you are running MacOSX, or try compiling yours 
> by it checking out from Apple's CVS.
> More informations here:
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/gcc-3.3/gcc/Source-Code.html
> 
> Diego, that's the second message in less than a week about that 
> problem... souldn't we add a FAQ entry about that?
> Maybe Romain Dolbeau should post a message about this exact problem so 
> the FAQ entry would be accurate.

Probably an configure check would be better,
we could blacklist PPC Gnu gcc versions that are know to
produce bad code. We have done it before ;)
 
Wish You Best
   Ivan Kalvachev
  iive