[MPlayer-users] mplayer compilation error

[Dean S. Messing]

David C. Diemer writes:
 :: MMX stands for the [Intel] Multi-media extensions built into the Pentuim II 
 :: MMX-233 and higher speed and class processors. It has special instructions 
 :: to help graphics and sound process faster if written to the processor's 
 :: special intructions.

Thanks.  I didn't know this.

 :: But, hey!, it can't hurt in your case, to remove them. I don't know if the 
 :: various audio and video codecs use those instruction sets but mplayer will 
 :: specifically look for them and use them if you compile them in.
 :: 
 :: What this means is that you can expect your processor to run at least 5-10% 
 :: more than an Intel with the instructions built-in (if the processor, as you 
 :: suggested, has no MMX set). So your processor runs harder but that 
 :: movie/video should still play.

I didn't mean to suggest that my processor does not have an MMX set.
I'm pretty sure I do have the needed support, based on the
output of ./configure.  Also, it _should_ compile.
So either I'm doing something wrong, the compiler is buggy, or the
code is buggy.  I'd like to find out which.

Also, I can't afford to spend CPU cycles when I don't need to.  I'm
not interested in watching movies, per se.  I'm setting up an
experimental research machine on which we will encode and run
algorithmic motion studies on test video sequences.  Lots and lots of
processing is (hopefully) going to be occurring while MPlayer is
playing.  I need all the cycles I can get.

Besides (again) I'm interested at this point in finding the problem.
Any help is appreciated.

Dean

                                  Dean S. Messing
                                  Display Algorithms & Visual Optimization Lab
                                  Information Systems Technologies Dept.
                                  Sharp Laboratories of America
                          E-Mail: deanm at sharplabs.com