[Ffmpeg-devel] snow related files cause the compile of mplayer to crash on mac os x 10.3.9

[Guillaume POIRIER]

Hi,

On 3/31/06, Ergzay <ergzay at everyoneproductions.com> wrote:
>
> On 2006/03/31, at 15:28, Luca Barbato wrote:
>
> > Ergzay wrote:
> >> On 2006/03/31, at 5:00, Luca Barbato wrote:
> >>> Ergzay wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> `inner_add_yblock_bw_8_obmc_16_altivec':
> >>>> ppc/dsputil_snow_altivec.c:560: error: incompatible types in
> >>>> assignment
> >>>> ppc/dsputil_snow_altivec.c:561: error: incompatible types in
> >>>> assignment
> >>>> ppc/dsputil_snow_altivec.c:564: error: incompatible types in
> >>>> assignment
> >>>
> >>> Fixed now, hopefully.
> >>>
> >>> Could you please benchmark it on osx please?
> >> Benchmark? How would I go about doing that?
> >> Ergzay
> >
> > ffplay -debug 2 file 2>log
> >
> >  with altivec enabled and with altivec disabled could be ok
> >
> > another way could be run a file on mplayer and measure the cpu %
> >
> > All I need to know if my hacks helped a bit or snow is still a
> > complete pain.
>
> Well I might remind you I am compiling mplayer here and not ffmpeg
> itself, just using ffmpeg's codecs and filters. I have no files that
> use snow.

I've got a sample here:
http://tuxrip.free.fr/transperl/MPlayer/The_Godfather-1972_snow.avi

As to was Snow is:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_(codec)

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