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Just the other day someone (chinese characters name) with loongson.cn email started dropping Mplayer patches(fixes,optimisations) on official mplayer mailing li
by rasz_pl 11y ago
Just the other day someone (chinese characters name) with loongson.cn email started dropping Mplayer patches(fixes,optimisations) on official mplayer mailing list.
I dont remember ever seeing that out of Chinese SoC vendors. They usually ninja patch internally and ship half working garbage binary (Im looking at you Rockchip cocks) to selected favourite vendors.
- kryptiskt 11y ago> They usually ninja patch internally and ship half working garbage binary (Im looking at you Rockchip cocks) to selected favourite vendors. And if you actually do get their source, you will likely also get your own private hell in trying to replicate their Windows XP-based build environment.
- mmcco 11y agoIngenic, a Chinese SoC CPU vendor, worked with ImgTec to add MXU (their MIPS32 SIMD extension) to MPlayer in an open source fork. However, they seem to insist that you reverse engineer their quirky instruction encodings from a confusing awk script. The only alternative is to actually run all of your source files through the awk script during builds... I started adding them to the LLVM but lost interest. The instructions are available on the Creator CI20 and the GCW Zero, as well as some new Chinese market tablets from Philips.
- cgh 11y agoThis was the big problem with the Linksys fiasco some years back. The Chinese developers wouldn't give up the source and all Cisco/Linksys had was this binary.