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authorgabucino <gabucino@b3059339-0415-0410-9bf9-f77b7e298cf2>2001-08-25 14:17:40 +0000
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@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2">2.1.2 Supported audio & video codecs</A>
<UL><LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.1">2.1.2.1 DivX4</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.2">2.1.2.2 ffmpeg's DivX/libavcodec</A></LI>
+ <LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.2.3">2.1.2.3 Hardware AC3 decoding</A></LI>
</UL>
</LI><LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4">2.1.4 Codec importing howto</A></LI>
<UL><LI><A HREF="codecs.html#2.1.4.1">2.1.4.1 VFW codecs</A></LI>
@@ -87,7 +88,7 @@
</LI><LI><A HREF="#6">6. Misc OS'es</A>
<UL><LI><A HREF="#6.1">6.1 Debian packaging</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="#6.2">6.2 FreeBSD</A>
- </LI><LI><A HREF="#6.3">6.3 Solaris 8</A>
+ </LI><LI><A HREF="#6.3">6.3 Solaris</A>
</LI><LI><A HREF="#6.4">6.4 StrongARM</A>
</LI></UL>
</LI><LI><A HREF="#A">A. Authors</A>
@@ -361,7 +362,9 @@ symbolic link: <CODE>ln -s /dev/(your_cdrom_device) /dev/cdrom</CODE></P>
Feel free to add it :-)</P>
-<P><B><A NAME=6.3>6.3. Solaris 8</A></B></P>
+<P><B><A NAME=6.3>6.3. Solaris</A></B></P>
+
+<P>MPlayer should work on Solaris 2.6 or newer.</P>
<P>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)
+
<LI>The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB,
all data is accessed modulo 4GB
(http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592)
</UL></P>
+<P>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
+ <A HREF="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html">mediaLib</A>.</P>
+
+<P>VIS accelerated operations from mediaLib are used for mpeg2 video
+ decoding and for color space conversion in the video output drivers.</P>
+
<P><B><A NAME=6.4>6.4. StrongARM</A></B></P>
<P><B>MPlayer</B> is reported to compile on StrongARM. Use the following command line:</P>