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From: kashani <kashani-list@badapple.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  64bit vs 32bit
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:26:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4496EC71.4090102@badapple.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606162309.34109.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de>

Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> 
> you don't need a chroot.
> 
> Just emerge firefox-bin for flash
> and
> mplayer-bin for wmv files.
> 
> Everything else does not make problems. 

Depending on the video files you'd like to decode 32bit can make a 
difference. Many of the stranger codecs are supported through the win32 
codecs which are not 64bit safe or at least that's what I've read. I'd 
assume that qt, mp4, and wmv would generally be okay.

kashani
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-06-19 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-16 19:15 [gentoo-user] 64bit vs 32bit Catalin Trifu
2006-06-16 19:22 ` Justin R Findlay
2006-06-16 19:22 ` Lord Sauron
2006-06-16 21:09 ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 12:02   ` Pete Pardoe
2006-06-19 12:23     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 12:35       ` Gian Domeni Calgeer
2006-06-19 13:54         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-19 14:24           ` Gian Domeni Calgeer
2006-06-19 14:56             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-06-19 18:26   ` kashani [this message]
2006-06-19 21:43     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-06-21  5:26       ` Mike Huber
2006-06-21 12:28         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin

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