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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 00:41:37
Message-Id: CA+czFiBaj+=wcXX4MmuTX8HEs41q+jjyeVL=2DRVjsR1j=tTZg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4? by Paul Hartman
1 On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:41 PM, Paul Hartman
2 <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote:
4 >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman
5 >> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
6 >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
7 >>>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
8 >>>>
9 >>>>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway)
10 >>>>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but
11 >>>>> emerge won't enable the darn thing...
12 >>>>
13 >>>> You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs
14 >>>> to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
15 >>>
16 >>> If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses a 32-bit
17 >>> mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK.
18 >>
19 >> Wouldn't using multilib work around this?
20 >
21 > I think he would still need to compile a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg (in a
22 > 32-bit chroot) to be able to make use of them. Multilib would let him
23 > run 32-bit mplayer or ffmpeg binaries (which themselves would be able
24 > to use the 32-bit DLLs). But I don't think 64-bit mplayer/ffmpeg can
25 > call 32-bit DLLs.
26 >
27 > There is an amd64codecs package containing the 64-bit codecs, but it
28 > has been masked and made obsolete by the fact that mplayer/ffmpeg can
29 > natively do most (or all?) of those codecs these days.
30 >
31
32 I don't muck with multilib explicitly; I have it enabled, but I don't
33 actively do anything.
34
35 How does one appropriately build a 32-bit version of an established
36 ebuild on a multilib system?
37
38
39 --
40 :wq