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-rw-r--r--src/xine-utils/memcpy.c8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/xine-utils/memcpy.c b/src/xine-utils/memcpy.c
index 8353d6ba1..3d22dc8fa 100644
--- a/src/xine-utils/memcpy.c
+++ b/src/xine-utils/memcpy.c
@@ -477,8 +477,12 @@ void xine_probe_fast_memcpy(xine_t *xine)
best = xine->config->register_enum (xine->config, "misc.memcpy_method", 0,
memcpy_methods,
- _("Memcopy method to use in xine for large data chunks."),
- NULL, 20, update_fast_memcpy, (void *) xine);
+ _("memcopy method used by xine"),
+ _("The copying of large memory blocks is one of the most "
+ "expensive operations on todays computers. Therefore xine "
+ "provides various tuned methods to do this copying. "
+ "Usually, the best method is detected automatically."),
+ 20, update_fast_memcpy, (void *) xine);
/* check if function is configured and valid for this machine */
if( best != 0 &&