On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:13:57PM -0600, Todd Pytel wrote: [snip] > > Do you actually understand what all the various compile-time options > are, and why you may or may not want them? For probably 99% of users, > the basic options in premade packages are all they need. If you're in > that 1% left over, then by all means compile away. It's nice to have the > power if you need it, but silly to reinvent a perfectly good wheel.
I don't add any special compile-time switches to optimize it: the default debian/rules has an "--enable-runtime-cpu-detection" flag set which I remove. Mplayer will then optimize itself for your particular CPU, no heroics required. In fact, it will complain at some point that you really should do that. Not sure how *much* difference it makes, but mplayer put it in there for some reason, I'm sure. Plus, my source.list is simpler without 3rd party apt sources -- and thus my dependency hell is lessened. Plus, it's fun! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
