Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Nuitari <nuitari@××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more....
Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2005 08:08:27
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.64.0512090306000.17797@melchior.nuitari.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more.... by Sebastian Redl
1 >> One problem I see with your suggestion is that I need to play wmv
2 >> files from web links and the win32codecs flag for mplayer is masked
3 >> out on my box. Until I set this positive in my chroot'ed environment
4 >> all I got was audio. With it turned on I get video also.
5 >>
6 >> If this cannot be turned on in the 64-bit world then the 64-bit world
7 >> wouldn't work for me.
8 >>
9 >>
10 > The win32codecs flag enables mplayer to use binary codecs written for
11 > Windows. Since for now these libraries are all 32 bit, they can't be called
12 > from 64-bit code.
13 > However, the 32-bit version of mplayer is able to use them. At least it does
14 > on my box.
15 >
16 > Sebastian Redl
17
18 You can have mplayer(64 bit) and mplayer-bin(32 bit) concurrently on a
19 gentoo installation. Whenever you need the 32 bit part just use
20 mplayer-bin
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] AMD64 - Firefox, flash, java, mplayer and more.... milton.yates@×××××××××××××××××××.fr