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From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng@×××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots?
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 02:59:30
Message-Id: 1121223239.15192.125.camel@neuromancer.home.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? by daniel
1 On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 22:48 -0400, daniel wrote:
2 > On July 12, 2005 05:12 am, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
3 > > Why doesn't mplayer let me compile with win32codecs? It doesn't pull
4 > > down win32codec as a dependency and having that USE flag in the CLI as
5 > > well as on make.conf doesn't make a difference.
6 > >
7 > > I still can't get "-win32codecs" to "+win32codecs"
8 > >
9 > > Comment?
10 >
11 > lemme guess. you're suing an amd64 profile? if you use a pure-64bit system,
12 > you can't use 32bit binary windows codecs, so it's masked for your profile.
13 > i'm in the same boat as you. as far as i know, the only options we have are
14 > (a) re-installing at 32bit, (b) waiting 'till the windows world catches up
15 > and starts releasing 64bit binary codecs or (c) writing our own decoders :-(
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18 Nope. It's a simple x86 profile but it's uclibc based. I want to try to
19 build a minimal Gentoo with Mplayer.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Does (-win32codecs) mean Slots? Edward Catmur <ed@×××××××××.uk>