On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:48:55PM +0200, A Mennucc wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:41:46AM +0200, Michal Suchanek wrote: > > On 06/07/2008, A Mennucc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > also, it is compiled using --enable-debug, so it has -O2 instead > > > of -O4 > > The reason I did that was that I was expecting some mess when > I finally would have prepared a version of MPlayer linked > to external FFMpeg, so a -dbg package would have helped; > (and indeed a lot of mess happened) > > MPlayer 1.0~rc2-15 is compiled with "-g -O2" instead > of "-O4 -ffast-math ....". > > I could reverse this flag now; but note that > this flag affects the code of MPlayer itself, not the code in > the FFmpeg external libraries (that are out of my reach), > and AFAIK that code is much more relevant to speed.
I would suggest that you build with the same flags that we use upstream. > The set of flags for compiling ffmpeg is quite messy currently; > in one single line of gcc in > > http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?pkg=ffmpeg-free;ver=0.svn20080206-8;arch=alpha;stamp=1212572490 > I count 4 "-g", two "-O2" and two "-O3" > (does this make it "-O2.5" ? :-) The FFmpeg package is in bad shape currently, it is being built without processor-specific optimizations on x86. Thus it is unusably slow. I and others have been talking with Reinhard Tartler, who currently maintains FFmpeg. A new package should appear soon. Let's see what happens then. Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

