Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Sebastian Redl <sebastian.redl@×××××××××××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more....
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 07:56:23
Message-Id: 4399384F.2070206@getdesigned.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more.... by Mark Knecht
1 Mark Knecht wrote:
2
3 >One problem I see with your suggestion is that I need to play wmv
4 >files from web links and the win32codecs flag for mplayer is masked
5 >out on my box. Until I set this positive in my chroot'ed environment
6 >all I got was audio. With it turned on I get video also.
7 >
8 >If this cannot be turned on in the 64-bit world then the 64-bit world
9 >wouldn't work for me.
10 >
11 >
12 The win32codecs flag enables mplayer to use binary codecs written for
13 Windows. Since for now these libraries are all 32 bit, they can't be
14 called from 64-bit code.
15 However, the 32-bit version of mplayer is able to use them. At least it
16 does on my box.
17
18 Sebastian Redl
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