Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Yahoo news video
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 00:29:41
Message-Id: 1126398455.14531.36.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Yahoo news video by Tres Melton
1 On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 15:45 -0600, Tres Melton wrote:
2 > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > > On the following link
5 > >
6 > > http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms
7 > >
8 > > Just below the main story on the upper right there is a link for some
9 > > video. I am unable to play this video so far on my AMD64 machine. I
10 > > haven't got access immediately to try one of my 32-bit machines to
11 > > compare.
12 > >
13 > > Does this work for anyone else? If so how did you manage to do it?
14 > > I've emerged firefox-bin, realplayer 10.5, mplayer and lots of Java
15 > > stuff. When I trace out the links it says it needs Realplayer Ver. 7.
16 > >
17 > > I know in the past there have been many issues with Yahoo not
18 > > accepting Linux. Is that the root cause here?
19 > >
20 > > Thanks,
21 > > Mark
22 >
23 > You can use a 32 bit chroot jail or the instructions to build a 32 bit
24 > mplayer here: http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/ . Basically you
25 > need to use win32codecs and they are only 32 bits so must be linked
26 > against a 32 bit binary.
27 >
28
29 Or you can just use mplayer-bin, which is already 32-bit and in portage.
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