You'll find a few other surprises in pre8, as well.  Many, many bugs
have been fixed in relation to Solaris builds.  The sysi86 declaration
has been fixed. 'configure', by far, has had the most work done ot it. A
nasty bug was preventing MMX, MMX2, SSE, SSE2, etc. from being detected
on Solaris/x86 builds, and thus all previous MPlayer releases weren't
using MMX, etc. on Solaris/x86.  mediaLib has also been disabled on
SPARC (brokeness, here) and on x86, because of performance concerns. 
Between processor extensions being detected properly and mediaLib being
disabled, there are *huge* performance gains in pre8 compared to its
predecessors for Solaris/x86. 

Unfortunately, Solaris/SPARC still has some rough edges.  There are some
endian issues in x11_vo.  This is one thing that's on my TODO list to
fix, as well as to fix mediaLib on SPARC.

If any Solaris users do find bugs in pre8 or sources from the SVN
repository *please* contact me, as it is my job to fix it (being the
Solaris/AIX port maintainer for the MPlayer project).

Thanks,

(Apologies for the double-post, Doug)

-- 
Derek E. Lewis
dlewis at solnetworks.net
http://riemann.solnetworks.net/~dlewis


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