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Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec

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Hi Reimar,

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:32:55 +0200 Reimar =?iso-8859-1?Q?D=F6ffinger?=
<Reimar.Doeffinger@stud.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote:

> AltiVec runtime detection never worked reliably (compiler dependant)
> and the way it was detected in libavcodec was an unacceptable hack.
> Since the PowerPC architecture does not offer a sane way to
> distinguish between with and without Altivec we now treat them as
> different architectures, meaning you need a different build for each.
> 
> Greetings,
> Reimar Döffinger
> 

The above was 16 years ago; on Debian powerpc list a couple a
ways to do runtime detection were suggested

https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2023/06/msg00030.html

could you please check again if it's still unfeasible to detect altivec
at runtime in mplayer/mencoder?

Thanks,
Lorenzo

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Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2023-06-05 00:20 +0200
  Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de> - 2023-06-05 20:40 +0200
    Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Lorenzo <plorenzo@disroot.org> - 2023-06-06 15:10 +0200
      Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de> - 2023-06-06 15:30 +0200
        Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de> - 2023-06-06 20:30 +0200
          Bug#448105: mplayer: Illegal Instruction in init_audio_codec Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger@gmx.de> - 2023-06-06 21:30 +0200

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