[mythtv] Current state of MythTv using Via XvMC VLD Hardware MPEG decoding

[James Stembridge]

On 5/2/05, Isaac Richards <ijr at case.edu> wrote:
> On Monday 02 May 2005 04:08 pm, James Stembridge wrote:
> > Why not just determine mmx support at runtime? That would save
> > the whole is/isn't mmx enabled questions.
> 
> Because it's a compiler issue?

I'm not sure I follow. The easy approach would seem to be to compile
in any processors specific code (say MMX, SSE, etc. for x86) and then
determine what the processor supports at runtime and use different
routines appropriately. That way a single binary will work on
different machines in a somewhere near optimal fashion.

If we're talking about the processor using MMX of it's own accord I'm
not aware that things had got that advanced...

James.