[arch-general] Best Practices...

[Pierre Chapuis]

On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 18:41:20 +0300, Ionu?^? Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org>
wrote:

> use abs to recompile mplayer against x264-git

That would be a good solution for most packages but in this case you
should be aware that:

 - x264 is used only for video encoding, not decoding, so unless you 
   encode videos you simply don't need x264-git;

 - if you *do* encode videos and care about performance you should 
   compile mplayer on your machine with a custom PKGBUILD or one from 
   AUR that lets its build process auto-detect your hardware.
   mplayer-svn is probably a good choice.

-- 
Pierre 'catwell' Chapuis