On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 06:11:24PM +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Diego Biurrun <di...@biurrun.de> writes: > > >> Hello Reimar, > >> indeed its a PPC G3 Ibook without altivec. > > > > And indeed this is the cause for the crash. Fixing this is going to be > > tricky. As a personal workaround, compile your own MPlayer without > > AltiVec support. > > I envision two approached to fix this problem: > > a. compile mplayer twice on powerpc and install as > /usr/bin/mplayer.altivec and /usr/bin/mplayer.non-altivec. Then a > shell wrapper that detects altivec e.g. in /proc/cpuinfo or > something is calling the real binary > > b. compile mplayer twice on powerpc and install as > /usr/bin/mplayer.altivec and /usr/bin/mplayer.non-altivec. The > mplayer package's postinst will then symlink /usr/bin/mplayer to the > "right" binary. > > Is one of the two an acceptable solution? If yes, which one is better?
Didn't you already have an alternative libavcodec version in place somewhere? Diego -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
