Bug 1967 – Performance enhancement for mplayer

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Darrell Wright 2002-04-21 03:20:08 UTC]

MPlayer, from what I understand runs better with the cpu 
runtime detection disabled.  Seeing as it is being build on a 
per system basis, this should be done.  Here is the diff to 
make this happen. 
139c139 
<       ./configure --disable-runtime-cpudetection 
--prefix=/usr \ 
--- 
>       ./configure --prefix=/usr \

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-04-21 17:28:26 UTC]

Seemant: does this sound like a good idea or not?  I don't know if this advice
is reliable or not.

[Comment 2 Darrell Wright 2002-04-21 18:45:47 UTC]

A peice of additional information: MPlayer when playing videos and not compiling
with this option says to do this in order to enhance performance.  It gives this
warning at the beginning of the text displayed.

[Comment 3 Ryan Phillips (RETIRED) 2002-04-21 20:25:03 UTC]

mplayer.c does state this.  It also states that --disable-runtime-cpudetection
is more stable at the moment.

-ryan

[Comment 4 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2002-04-22 23:20:17 UTC]

Daniel, yes this is sound advice.  In my little experiment on mplayer-cvs, I had
actually enabled it.

Thank you for dwight :)