[gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Mark Knecht]

Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?

I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
(-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.

Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use it?

Thanks,
Mark
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[gentoo-amd64] Re: win32codecs on AMD64?

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/13/07, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?
>
> I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
> (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.
>
> Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use it?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>

Sorry. Maybe mplayer-bin will take care of my problems.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Hemmann, Volker Armin]

On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?
>

yes

> I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
> (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.

because you can't mix 32 and 64bit code in one app.

> Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use
> it?

yes. emerge mplayer-bin. 32bit, with win32codecs.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Christoph Mende]

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:26:43 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?
> 
> I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
> (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.
> 
> Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use it?

Most of the stuff is natively supported by mplayer, beside that there
is amd64codecs. If you're missing something important then there's
mplayer-bin which is 32bit.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Mark Knecht]

On 6/13/07, Christoph Mende <angelos@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:26:43 -0700
> "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?
> >
> > I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
> > (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.
> >
> > Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use it?
>
> Most of the stuff is natively supported by mplayer, beside that there
> is amd64codecs. If you're missing something important then there's
> mplayer-bin which is 32bit.
>

OK, with mplayer-bin I am able to play the files I was interested in
however I've not heard of amd64codecs before. Is there some way to
link this into mplayer as a replacement for win32codecs?

The Gentoo Online database page for amd64codecs just points to mplayer
so it seems it's intended for this but I don't see an amd64codec flag
when I look at emerging mplayer.

Thanks,
Mark
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[B. Nice]

On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine?
> 
> I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like
> (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer.
> 
> Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit app and be able to use it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Mark

If you're not married to the idea of using mplayer, vlc works well on an
amd64 and plays pretty much every file format I've ever come across.  I
haven't installed any binary packages, so I'm fairly certain it's 64bit.
The next question being how do they manage to use a 32bit codec(wmv) in
a 64bit package.. Not a clue.

Hope this helps

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Christoph Mende]

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On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:17:12 -0700
"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK, with mplayer-bin I am able to play the files I was interested in
> however I've not heard of amd64codecs before. Is there some way to
> link this into mplayer as a replacement for win32codecs?
> 
> The Gentoo Online database page for amd64codecs just points to mplayer
> so it seems it's intended for this but I don't see an amd64codec flag
> when I look at emerging mplayer.

It's pulled in with USE="real" (and -bindist -livecd).

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Isidore Ducasse]

le Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:58:45 -0400
"B. Nice" <anonymous.pseudonym.88@gmail.com> a écrit:

> 
> On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote:
> 
> If you're not married to the idea of using mplayer, vlc works well on an
> amd64 and plays pretty much every file format I've ever come across.  I
> haven't installed any binary packages, so I'm fairly certain it's 64bit.

It _is_ 64 bits. Besides, vlc can use your hardware acceleration chipsets, whereas mplayer can't (it's a software-rendering player). And confirming what you mention, I was surprised to notice that vlc can play wma and such without the need for win32codecs. The only thing I'm using mplayer for, is re-encoding tecplot's avi exports, which don't seem to work with vlc.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

[Christoph Mende]

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On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:53:32 +0200
Isidore Ducasse <ducasse.isidore@gmail.com> wrote:
> It _is_ 64 bits. Besides, vlc can use your hardware acceleration chipsets, whereas mplayer can't (it's a software-rendering player). And confirming what you mention, I was surprised to notice that vlc can play wma and such without the need for win32codecs. The only thing I'm using mplayer for, is re-encoding tecplot's avi exports, which don't seem to work with vlc.
mplayer can do that too and since they both use pretty much the same
libraries, they can play the same stuff ;)

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