severity 523035 important retitle 523035 vlc does not run on G3 Macs stop Gunther Furtado <[email protected]> writes: > That is an iMac G3 333MHz. I don't realy know about altivec.
okay, then the issue is clear. libvlccore0 contains altivec code, which cannot be executed on G3 macs. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altivec AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, (the AIM alliance), and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's PWRficient PA6T. AltiVec is a tradename owned solely by Freescale, so the system is also referred to as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM and P.A. Semi, although IBM has recently begun using AltiVec as well. In ffmpeg, we solve this problem by building the libraries twice on powerpc: a generic one in /usr/lib for G3 macs, and an altivec enabled on in /usr/lib/altivec. I think we need to do the same in vlc :-( -- Gruesse/greetings, Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
