From: Tres Melton <tres@mindspring.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Yahoo news video
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:45:40 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126388741.10176.2.camel@thor.tres.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b05090911247b8ccabd@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> On the following link
>
> http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms
>
> Just below the main story on the upper right there is a link for some
> video. I am unable to play this video so far on my AMD64 machine. I
> haven't got access immediately to try one of my 32-bit machines to
> compare.
>
> Does this work for anyone else? If so how did you manage to do it?
> I've emerged firefox-bin, realplayer 10.5, mplayer and lots of Java
> stuff. When I trace out the links it says it needs Realplayer Ver. 7.
>
> I know in the past there have been many issues with Yahoo not
> accepting Linux. Is that the root cause here?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
You can use a 32 bit chroot jail or the instructions to build a 32 bit
mplayer here: http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/ . Basically you
need to use win32codecs and they are only 32 bits so must be linked
against a 32 bit binary.
Regards,
--
Tres Melton
IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-10 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-09 18:24 [gentoo-amd64] Yahoo news video Mark Knecht
2005-09-09 20:08 ` Brian Litzinger
2005-09-10 21:45 ` Tres Melton [this message]
2005-09-11 0:27 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2005-09-11 17:55 ` [gentoo-amd64] First Linux install ever Scott Heath
2005-09-11 8:49 ` Mathijs Claassen
2005-09-11 9:55 ` phil
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