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From: "Hemmann
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 21:50:11
Message-Id: 200606192343.10340.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit by kashani
1 On Monday 19 June 2006 20:26, kashani wrote:
2 > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
3 > > you don't need a chroot.
4 > >
5 > > Just emerge firefox-bin for flash
6 > > and
7 > > mplayer-bin for wmv files.
8 > >
9 > > Everything else does not make problems.
10 >
11 > Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a
12 > difference. Many of the stranger codecs are supported through the win32
13 > codecs which are not 64bit safe or at least that's what I've read. I'd
14 > assume that qt, mp4, and wmv would generally be okay.
15
16 and this 'strange' codecs are covered by mplayer-bin too.
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Re: [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit Mike Huber <michael.huber@×××××.com>