[mythtv-users] compiling mythtv with VDPAU

[Robert McNamara]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:36 AM, Phil Wild <philwild at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> From the ubuntu package log:
>>> mythtv (0.21.0~fixes15967-0ubuntu2) hardy; urgency=low
>>>
>>>  * Replace --tune=i686 and --cpu=i686 as it was a performance loss
>>>    to tune to generic. (LP: #191165)
>>>  * Build with unadvertised faad support.
>>>  * Build with unadvertised faac support.
>>>  * Build with unadvertised libmp3lame support.
>>>  * Build with unadvertised liba52 support.
>>>  * Build with unadvertised libx264 support.
>>>  * Build with unadvertised libxvid support.
>>>
>>>  -- Mario Limonciello <superm1 at ubuntu.com>  Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:07:39 -0600
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>>
>> Yep, and they're wrong to do it.  I informed one of their packagers
>> about this recently.  Four of those options do *nothing* but break
>> compiles if they're not the right versions.  Once again, these are
>> *not* from myth's compile, but rather automatically brought in when
>> merging ffmpeg's configure with ours.  They're not unadvertised,
>> they're *not myth configure options*.  We can argue this further if
>> you like, but it will still be the truth.
>>
>> Robert
>
> Of the following six entries then, which four should be removed?
>
> #TOP_SECRET_OPTS += --enable-libfaad --enable-libfaac --enable-libmp3lame \
> #                   --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-libfftw3
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Heh, those are not the same options as listed above, so there aren't
four to remove. However the useless ones from your list are libfaac,
libx264, and libxvid.  More or less 90% of the stuff that is block
quoted in configure is that way because it is not meant to be used by
people/does nothing/breaks things.

Robert