terça, 07 de abril de 2009, Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com> escreveu:
>Subject: libvlccore0: VLC shuts down with "Illegal Instruction" [...] >whenever I try to open any kind of media VLS shuts down with nothing >but an "Illegal Instruction" >notice. The forwarded message bellow reports the current situations. Just to inform the G3 users. The version in stable (0.8.6h) works fine. [Thanks Jose JORGE.] thanks, forwarding------- > >Gunther Furtado <gunfurt...@gmail.com> writes: >> That is an iMac G3 333MHz. I don't realy know about altivec. > >okay, then the issue is clear. libvlccore0 contains altivec code, which >cannot be executed on G3 macs. > >From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altivec > >AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed >and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the >Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, (the AIM alliance), and >implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's >G5 and POWER6 processors, and P.A. Semi's PWRficient PA6T. AltiVec is a >tradename owned solely by Freescale, so the system is also referred to >as Velocity Engine by Apple and VMX by IBM and P.A. Semi, although IBM >has recently begun using AltiVec as well. > > >In ffmpeg, we solve this problem by building the libraries twice on >powerpc: a generic one in /usr/lib for G3 macs, and an altivec enabled >on in /usr/lib/altivec. I think we need to do the same in vlc :-( > >-- >Gruesse/greetings, >Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4 -- Gunther Furtado gunfurt...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
