[XviD-devel] general question about the platform

josse xvid-devel@xvid.org
Tue, 21 Jan 2003 16:46:01 +0100


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>You _can_ compile for any plattform that supports ANSI C (in theory it
>should work, maybe with a few minor modifications). The ASM-files are only 
>for speedup, so if you want realtime encoding/decoding, you might have to
>add some .asm files for you plattform. However, you don't have to do this
>for every file, and the most often used routines are also the most basic
>ones, with algorithms often available from the CPU manufactor, like
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>SAD = sum of absolute errors = distance between two vectors in L^1-norm
>and
>DCT/iDCT = 2d (inverse) discrete cosine function acting on 8x8 blocks. 
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>gruel 
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Thank's for the fast answer.
I will taste it for my platform.

cu josse