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On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman |
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<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman |
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>> <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>>>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>>>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) |
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>>>>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but |
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>>>>> emerge won't enable the darn thing... |
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>>>> You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs |
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>>>> to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask |
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>>> If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses a 32-bit |
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>>> mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK. |
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>> Wouldn't using multilib work around this? |
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> I think he would still need to compile a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg (in a |
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> 32-bit chroot) to be able to make use of them. Multilib would let him |
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> run 32-bit mplayer or ffmpeg binaries (which themselves would be able |
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> to use the 32-bit DLLs). But I don't think 64-bit mplayer/ffmpeg can |
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> call 32-bit DLLs. |
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> There is an amd64codecs package containing the 64-bit codecs, but it |
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> has been masked and made obsolete by the fact that mplayer/ffmpeg can |
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> natively do most (or all?) of those codecs these days. |
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And presumably for all the same reasons, if I cannot play them I |
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cannot convert them. |
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Ah, a world full of unspecified, proprietary vendor specific file |
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formats hidden in old dlls... Ain't it a fine world we live in? |
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Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to handle |
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this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the Windows |
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world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll start |
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looking for that. The web site that advertised conversion didn't work |
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as it bombed out after an hour. |
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Maybe there's some simple binary install I could do - Fedora or |
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Ubuntu, etc. - but my concern there is that those binaries might not |
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play well inside my 64-bit Gentoo environ... |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |