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From: Jonathan Wright <mail@×××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem.
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 22:23:40
Message-Id: 43347E47.9020806@djnauk.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] codec drivers problem. by David Harel
1 David Harel wrote:
2 >> What are your use flags? Did the codec get installed during the emerge
3 >> or was it 'skipped'?
4 >
5 > I was not aware of the use flag. Is there a document how to use this
6 > flag in case of media players?
7
8 There's the win32codec which should allow you to play wmv's, along with
9 realplayer which also installed that program/codec. You can run
10 --verbose (or -v) on emerge to see the use flags for that program:
11
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13 jwright on jonathan [ ~ ] --> emerge -pv mplayer
14
15 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
16
17 Calculating dependencies ...done!
18 [ebuild U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7-r1 [1.0_pre7] -3dfx +3dnow
19 +3dnowext +X -aac -aalib +alsa (-altivec) -arts -bidi -bl +cdparanoia
20 +cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug +dga -directfb +divx4linux -doc +dts
21 +dv -dvb +dvd +dvdread -edl +encode -esd +fbcon -ggi +gif +gtk -i8x0
22 -ipv6 -jack -joystick +jpeg -libcaca -lirc -live -lzo -mad -matroska
23 -matrox +mmx +mmxext -mythtv -nas -nls +nvidia +opengl -oss +png +real
24 +rtc +samba -sdl +sse -sse2 -svga -tga -theora +truetype -v4l -v4l2
25 -vorbis +win32codecs -xanim -xinerama -xmms +xv +xvid -xvmc 7,613 kB
26
27 Total size of downloads: 7,613 kB
28 ---------------------------------------------
29
30 Or, look though /usr/portage/profiles/{use, use.local}.desc which give
31 the descripts of the use flags. Also, if you have gentoolkit installed
32 (emerge gentoolkit), you can run:
33
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35 jwright on jonathan [ profiles ] --> equery uses mplayer
36 [ Searching for packages matching mplayer... ]
37 [ Colour Code : set unset ]
38 [ Legend : Left column (U) - USE flags from make.conf ]
39 [ : Right column (I) - USE flags packages was installed with ]
40 [ Found these USE variables for media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre7 ]
41 U I
42 - - 3dfx : Adds support for 3dfx video cards to XFree86.
43 + + 3dnow : Adds support for 3dnow multimedia processor
44
45 [ and so on.... ]
46
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48
49 HTH
50
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