Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Joel Wiramu Pauling <aenertia@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] HTPC, 64 or 32 bits?
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 10:30:16
Message-Id: 5a658e8f0611070228t19f08ad8ve36972b4facb224@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] HTPC, 64 or 32 bits? by Andreas Vinsander
1 Gentoo 64bit of course. Especially for encoding you wills see big gains.
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3 However you will probably want 32bit librarys installed so you can use win32
4 codecs with mplayer and such.
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6 This is not difficult and explained on the wiki nicely.
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9 Kind regards
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11 JoelW
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15 On 07/11/06, Andreas Vinsander <andreas@×××××××××.se> wrote:
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17 > Hi!
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19 > Just assembled the hardware for my new toy, an HTPC with an athlon64 X2
20 > CPU.
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22 > Right now I am contemplating if I should install 64 or 32 bit gentoo on
23 > it.
24 > It's main purpose should be to act as a DVR for DVB recording, and a bit
25 > of mail reading and web surfing... and quite possibly a bit of gaming...
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27 > I'm also pondering what software to use, MythTV, Freevo or something else?
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29 > Anyone having some advice?
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31 > /Andreas
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33 > gentoo-amd64@g.o mailing list
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] HTPC, 64 or 32 bits? Marc Redmann <mr_spuck_2001@×××××.de>