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> I just meant Wine on AMD64, i.e. - the machines on this list. My |
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> interest in using Wine for NetFlix will be multimedia intensive, so it |
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> will likely require codec and stuff like that to work well. Much of |
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> that stuff hardly works on 32-bit Linux. I was interested in whether |
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> power users, not dummies like me, we able to get good results. If they |
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> can then possibly by trying hard someone like me might. If they can't |
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> then I know I never will. |
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Wine is a 32 bit application only. Wine can run on amd64, but it either |
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requires the emul-linux-x86 libs installed (a multi lib setup) or a 32 |
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bit chroot environment. So for all practical purposes, when running wine |
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on amd64, you are really just running wine on a standard x86 platform. |
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There is no 64 bit support for wine, and I doubt there ever will be |
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support (at least in the next 10 years). |
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As for the win32 codecs, the support has come a long way (at least on |
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the native 32 bit platform). I have recently switched my amd64 platform |
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back to x86 and I have not had too many problems playing streaming |
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content for WMP and Real Audio. I can only assume that since the amd64 |
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platform uses the same win32 codecs, the support should be similar. |
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This, of course also assumes using the firefox-bin package along with |
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a multi lib setup as all the codecs are only 32 bit. |
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Now, if you are interested in getting IE running on Wine, you may want |
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to look at: |
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http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Internet_Explorer_6_SP1 |
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It doesn't look like IE7 is supported on Wine yet but I would think |
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NetFlix would work with IE6. |
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Brett |
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