[MPlayer-users] typo: SIGILL is inside wmv8ds32.ax / followup: further fixing ideas

[Felix Buenemann]

On Sunday 26 May 2002 19:58, Eric Auer wrote:
> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
>
> Hi, sorry for the followup:
> > This is why I get a SIGILL inside divxa32.acm:
>
> must be: ... inside wmv8ds32.ax
>
> So the subject was correct and the quoted line above was wrong. ;-)
>
> According to
> http://www.MPlayerHQ.hu/DOCS/codecs-status.html
>
> the mentioned win32 thingies seem to be the only codecs which can
> handle WMV2 and WMA currently!?
>
> RDTSC is the opcode 0f 31, but I guess it would be a pretty bad
> idea to just "nop it out" (overwrite the occurance of 0f 31 by
> 90 90) as this would deprive the wmv8ds32.ax library of its way
> to know the elapsed (real, global CPU clocks) time. Would be nice
> if somebody could give me an educated guess about this issue - or
> better, a version of the wmv8ds32.ax (and maybe divxa32.acm) which
> does not use or at least does not insist on using the rdtsc command.
Try using nops for it, I wonder what the codec does with rdtsc anyways.

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Best Regards,
        Atmos
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