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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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  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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