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List:       kde-multimedia
Subject:    MMX and mpeglib
From:       Neil Stevens <multivac () fcmail ! com>
Date:       2001-02-14 22:36:19
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Remember how I said I could not recommend Noatun as a movie player, 
because I never had it working?  Well, it's very strange... running on a 
PIII instead of a PPro, the crash goes away.  Exact same binary, exact 
same system, different processor.

Conclusion:  The crash might have been caused by mpeglib trying to use MMX 
instructions on all Intel (or all Intel P6) processors, without checking 
if MMX instructions are actually available.  MMX does not exist on the 
PPro, and therefore would be guaranteed to fail.

Am I far off in my guess?

Ahh.. it's nice to play videos with kaboodle instead of gtv.  I just hope 
that everyone with a non-MMX processor gets to do the same.

-- 
Neil Stevens
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