[gentoo-user] win32codecs on an ARM architecture?

[Daniel Quinn]

I have 3 Sheevaplugs (http://www.marvell.com/featured/plugcomputing.jsp) which 
all run ARM cpus.  For the most part I've had very few problems setting these 
up to run Gentoo but now I'm trying to have one of them run Mencoder to record 
CBC's The National from an MMS stream and I'm having this problem:

  Sorry, this file format is not recognized/supported

I can only assume that this is due to the fact that mplayer won't emerge with 
the win32codecs USE flag, probably relating the architecture I'm using.  Isn't 
there a way to make this work?  Emulate an x86 space or something?  I'm rather 
new at working across architectures so I'm kinda poking around in the dark 
here.