[vlc-devel] [vlc-commits] contrib: qt 5.3.0

Rafaël Carré funman at videolan.org
Tue Jun 10 17:09:16 CEST 2014


On 06/10/14 11:03, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
> On 10 Jun, Rafaël Carré wrote :
>> On 06/10/14 10:53, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>>> On 10 Jun, Rafaël Carré wrote :
>>>> vlc | branch: master | Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> | Tue Jun 10 10:32:49 2014 -0400| [50c3fae8cf2de1de28632a7767f6cf6b44b762d1] | committer: Rafaël Carré
>>>>
>>>> contrib: qt 5.3.0
>>>
>>> This enables SSE2 on Windows by default.
>>>
>>> If we disable it, as there is no autodetection anymore (why?), it will
>>> be slower than Qt5.2.1 on all processors.
>>
>> Let's see if we can roll-back a handful patches, did anyone look at
>> qt.git history?
> 
> I tried, and it's a bit too much work.

How much commits ? (approximately)

>>> If we enable it, it will break in older processors, including Athlon XP
>>> and some Pentium-M.
>>
>> I think all Pentium-M support SSE2.
> 
> Possible. But we had complaints for Athlon
> https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/10108

Alright, Athlon XP CPUs do not have SSE2.

>>> Seeing that people complained when 2.1.0 broke those processors, and the
>>> bugreports we had, I think it is a bad idea to do this now.
>>
>> Are we gonna use Qt5 without support for video embedded in the GUI anyway?
> 
> Qt5 works fine on the latest NB on Windows.

I certainly missed that, when did that happen?

It's still not embedding on Linux.

>>> I suggest we postpone this change for 3.0.0, once we have a good way for
>>> updates.
>>
>> Please develop what you mean by "a good way for updates"
> 
> A way to discriminate depending on the CPU, so we don't update people to
> a version that does not run on their machine.

Sound complicated but why not.

> With my kindest regards,



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