2009/4/8 Reinhard Tartler <[email protected]>: > severity 523035 important > retitle 523035 vlc does not run on G3 Macs > stop
To be precise: vlc's interface shows up but vlc cannot play media. > > 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. > Thanks for explaining! > > 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 :-( > Just to confirm: I have '/usr/lib/altivec' and ffmpeg on my system. > -- > Gruesse/greetings, > Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 > greetings, -- Gunther Furtado Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil [email protected] "...agora, só nos sobrou o futuro...", visto em www.manuchao.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
