[x264-devel] Re: OSX Intel breakage..

Eric Petit eric.petit at lapsus.org
Thu Nov 2 16:51:47 CET 2006


This patch works for me: http://trac.videolan.org/vlc/changeset/16701  
(fixes the illegal instruction in pixel-sse2.asm due to pw_1/ssim_c1/ 
ssim_c2/mask_ff not being aligned).
I'm not sure why it wasn't included?

On Nov 2, 2006, at 3:29 PM, Brian Raymond wrote:
> It's been a few weeks now and I've had no luck attempting to  
> address the SSE assembly problem on Intel Macs. I was wondering who  
> else is still working it and what progress might have been made?
>
> - Brian
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2006, at 2:07 PM, Andrea Gianarro wrote:
>
>> On 10/3/06, Tim Greatrex <tim.greatrex at mac.com> wrote:
>>> Not sure if this is right at all, as im not too hot on this kinda
>>> stuff and havent really looked, but do the intel macs feature the
>>> intel instruction set as well as the altivec for apple? (thought i
>>> read something about them featuring altivec somewhere)
>>>
>>> if so then it may be trying to encode with both optimisations in  
>>> x264?
>>>
>>> Probably not tho :#)
>>>
>>> Tim
>>
>> The Intel macs feature the Intel instruction set up to SSE3. They can
>> run Altivec instructions in PPC binaries through the Rosetta  
>> emulation
>> layer. In addition Apple recommends to use the Accelerate  
>> Framework, a
>> set of libraries vector-accelerated and optimized for both Intel and
>> PPC (MMX, SSE, Altivec).
>>
>> Andrea Gianarro
>>
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