From 1c223b5bc0d32018fc8bc94d740d7bccd0e3b710 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gabucino On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by
+ using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations.
+ VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's
+ mediaLib. VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
+ decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.
2.1.2.3. Hardware AC3 decoding
+ +You'll need an AC3 capable soundcard, with digital out (SP/DIF). The +card's driver must support the AFMT_AC3 format (like SB Live! does). +Connect your AC3 decoder to the SP/DIF output, and use the '-ac hwac3' +option. It may or may not work (experimental).
+ + diff --git a/DOCS/documentation.html b/DOCS/documentation.html index 73d110beb8..31dda65da3 100644 --- a/DOCS/documentation.html +++ b/DOCS/documentation.html @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom
Feel free to add it :-)
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+MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.
AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform. On Solaris SPARC, @@ -424,12 +427,21 @@ disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE (i.e. CDROM and DVD media). Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk address modulo 4GB is accessed. (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516) +
On Solaris with an UltraSPARC CPU, you can get some extra speed by + using the CPU's VIS instructions for certain time consuming operations. + VIS acceleration can be used in MPlayer by calling functions in Sun's + mediaLib.
+ +VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video + decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.
+MPlayer is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line: