Thanks for looking at this again

On Mon, 5 Jun 2023 20:33:15 +0200 =?utf-8?Q?Reimar_D=C3=B6ffinger?=
<reimar.doeffin...@gmx.de> wrote:

> While it's still plenty messy, FFmpeg has runtime detection of
> altivec, and MPlayer itself has no altivec code itself. But I don't
> think it works, the problem is the compiler options:
> [ ... ]
> So maybe it is possible to get to work now, but probably separate
> builds would remain the better approach. On the plus side, if FFmpeg
> works, and since Debian links MPlayer to FFmpeg dynamically,
> --disable-altivec should be all that is needed - assuming the
> performance degradation on altivec enabled systems mentioned above is
> considered acceptable.

Disable altivec for everyone doesn't seem a good compromise to me, I'm
going to build twice on powerpc and let the user decide which one to use

Best,
Lorenzo

> 
> Best regards,
> Reimar
> 
> 
> 

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