[mythtv] ffmpeg sync

John reidjr at btconnect.com
Sat Oct 20 20:00:51 UTC 2007


John wrote:
> Janne Grunau wrote:
>> On Sunday 14 October 2007 23:36:26 John wrote:
>>  
>>> Once I got over the apparent dependency on gcc version (gcc-2.95 and
>>> gcc-4.1 both failed to compile the ffmpeg patch for some reason,
>>> seems like a known issue) and compiled with gcc-3.4, I used both the
>>> main, and additional patch.
>>>     
>>
>> It builds here with gcc 4.1.2 (32 bit and 64 bit). It would be nice 
>> if you can give details of your system and the build failure.
>>
>> Janne
>>
>>   
> the failure message was as I posted above, and seemed to be a known 
> ffmpeg /compiler problem.
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13850
>
> can't find a register in class `GENERAL_REGS' while reloading `asm'
>
> I was originally set up with gcc-4.1 (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) 
> (Debian 4.1.1-20), and was trying to compile it on my backend which is 
> a DURON1600 (athlonXP). The bug report seemed to suggest that it was 
> non-determenistic which seems bizarre.
>
> I was just about to see if I could reuse your skiploopfilter patch 
> from a few months back, but was allready at the "too difficult" stage. 
> Any chance that you could get that into any commit. Always good to be 
> able to ease of the cpu if possible.
>
> Thanks for all your efforts, much appreciated.
>
> John
The gcc version may have been a red herring ... or maybe not, I havn't 
tried all possible combinations yet.

But :
After much messing around I realised I was using --enable-proc-opt to 
try and wring the last clock cycle out of my machines.  If I compiled on 
my backend (Duron1600) it was compiling with -march=athlon , which would 
fail, whereas the core2duo was -march=K8. -march=K8 would compile, and 
-march=athlon would not. (and -march=K8 dies with illegal instruction on 
my Duron back end -- surprise). The default -march=pentiumpro works on 
all my machines, and I cant see any performance difference on playing 
back h264. I had expected a measurable difference when optimized against 
the newer processors.

John


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