From: "Joel Wiramu Pauling" <aenertia@aenertia.net>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] HTPC, 64 or 32 bits?
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 10:28:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a658e8f0611070228t19f08ad8ve36972b4facb224@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45505B57.1060804@vinsander.se>
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Gentoo 64bit of course. Especially for encoding you wills see big gains.
However you will probably want 32bit librarys installed so you can use win32
codecs with mplayer and such.
This is not difficult and explained on the wiki nicely.
Kind regards
JoelW
On 07/11/06, Andreas Vinsander <andreas@vinsander.se> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Just assembled the hardware for my new toy, an HTPC with an athlon64 X2
> CPU.
>
> Right now I am contemplating if I should install 64 or 32 bit gentoo on
> it.
> It's main purpose should be to act as a DVR for DVB recording, and a bit
> of mail reading and web surfing... and quite possibly a bit of gaming...
>
> I'm also pondering what software to use, MythTV, Freevo or something else?
>
> Anyone having some advice?
>
> /Andreas
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-07 10:09 [gentoo-amd64] HTPC, 64 or 32 bits? Andreas Vinsander
2006-11-07 10:28 ` Joel Wiramu Pauling [this message]
2006-11-07 21:33 ` Marc Redmann
2006-11-10 8:17 ` Andreas Vinsander
2006-11-07 15:15 ` Pascal BERTIN
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