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From: Dan Farrell <dan@spore.ath.cx>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64
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On Sun, 4 Feb 2007 04:37:48 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Daniel Iliev <danny <at> ilievnet.com> writes:
> 
> > > Close.  You can't use win32codecs on amd64 at all, unless you are
> > > using a 32 bit binary program with them.  Simple as that.  So VLC
> > > cannot use 32 bit binary codecs, unless someone made a vlc 32-bit
> > > binary and put it in the tree.
> 
> > Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can
> > use win32codecs
> 
...
> 
> How would one know which binary based multimedia/video/games packages
> work with win32codecs?  
> 
Any x86 binaries should be able to.  No x86_64 binaries will be able to.
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