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Set CONFIG_EBP_AVAILABLE, CONFIG_EBX_AVAILABLE for FFmpeg After FFmpeg r8549 these variables are used in libavcodec to determine whether x86 inline asm sections using these registers or requiring a certain total number of total free registers are enabled. Because they were not set by MPlayer configure some H264 decoding optimizations were disabled after that FFmpeg version. This change sets the variables to true unconditionally which should restore previous behavior. Adding proper detection is left for later. EBX should always be available because internal libavcodec is never compiled with PIC. However if -fomit-frame-pointer is not used because of --enable-debug then EBP is not available. Thus proper detection would be preferable to fix compilation with --enable-debug on x86. Currently the variables are also set on non-x86 which should be harmless even if somewhat ugly.

lidbha - Direct Hardware Access library
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This library was designed for providing direct hardware access under different
OS'es and architectures, so it's platform- and os-independent.

The main project on the top of libdha is Vidix. It provides userspace
video drivers for Matrox, Ati, 3Dlabs, Trident (and it's still evolving).

For the full list of supported OS'es read the sources, anyway here's a 'reported
as working' list (these platforms are used daily):
 Linux/x86
 FreeBSD/x86
 NetBSD/x86
 Linux/PPC

There are different ways to access the hardware, normally only ROOT can do that.
With root privileges libdha will run fine, but there are some others ways
to use it as a normal user:
1, set the SUID bit on the binary (in this way it runs with root privileges)
2, use svgalib kernel helper
3, use dhahelper (not yet finished)

The library is based on XFree86 and gfxdump (a utility from the GATOS project)
sources.

Original import and design by Nick Kurshev and Alex Beregszaszi.
Current maintenance and dhahelper by Alex Beregszaszi.
Svgalib kernelhelper support by Matan Ziv-Av.
(for the e-mail addresses see the AUTHORS file in MPlayer)