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On 1 May 2012, at 17:37, Claudio Roberto França Pereira wrote: |
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> You almost got it: |
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> $ eix -c w32 |
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> [N] dev-util/w32api (--): Free Win32 runtime and import library definitions |
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> $ eix -c win32 |
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> [N] media-libs/ ((~)20071007-r4): Windows 32-bit binary |
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> codecs for video and audio playback support |
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> It's also a use flag for vlc and mplayer (that's for my setup, |
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> probably other players support it too), it will pull the package for |
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> you. |
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I believed that upstream mplayer considered the win32codecs USE flag (or the equivalent --whatever build-time flag) to be depreciated. |
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AIUI win32codecs, as per the description, uses Microsoft *binary* blobs to do the decoding. If I `emerge -f win32codecs` and look inside the tarball, I see a bunch of .dll files. |
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I believe that mplayer will just use its own open-source decoding code in the absence of this package. |
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I am certainly able to play back .wmv files here without win32codecs installed. Admittedly, I'm using xbmc to do that, and haven't recently tested using VLC or mplayer, but I would avoid installing that package unless I was sure I needed it. |
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Stroller. |
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