[gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[James]

Hello one and all,

What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
vlc on amd64?

Any wikis?

I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?



James


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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Jakob Buchgraber]

James wrote:
> Hello one and all,
>
> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
> vlc on amd64?
>
> Any wikis?
>
> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?
>
>
>
> James
>
>
>   
As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any 
archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems.
Which errrors do you get?

Cheers,
Jay
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[gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

[James]

Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber <at> googlemail.com> writes:


> As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any 
> archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems.
> Which errrors do you get?

Hello Jakob
Despite including 'win32codecs' in my USE flags and in the
/etc/portage/package.use (for vlc) it shows win32codecs
as not being a compiled in option.

I just discovered that you can emerge 'win32codes', so is that
what I have to do to use win32codecs with vlc on amd64 ?


emerge -pv vlc
[ebuild   R   ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1  USE="X  
<snip>
(-win32codecs) 


???


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Jakob Buchgraber]

James wrote:
> Jakob Buchgraber <jakob.buchgraber <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>
>
>   
>> As far as I am informed the win32codecs are not related to any 
>> archticture, they just provide codecs used on Windows Systems.
>> Which errrors do you get?
>>     
>
> Hello Jakob
> Despite including 'win32codecs' in my USE flags and in the
> /etc/portage/package.use (for vlc) it shows win32codecs
> as not being a compiled in option.
>
> I just discovered that you can emerge 'win32codes', so is that
> what I have to do to use win32codecs with vlc on amd64 ?
>
>
> emerge -pv vlc
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/vlc-0.8.6-r1  USE="X  
> <snip>
> (-win32codecs) 
>
>
> ???
>
>
> James
>
>   
Yes. Try emerging the win32 codecs. They should actually be installed 
automatically as a dependency. I don't think that there is a special 
package for 64bit. Just use emerge --search or gentoo-portage.com to 
find out if there are special amd64 packages available. Maybe 
win64codecs ... :-)

Cheers,
Jay
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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Jürgen Geuter]

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On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 19:33 +0000, James wrote:

> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?

I think using mplayer-bin for x86 in compatibility mode should work with
win32codecs.

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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[kashani]

James wrote:
> Hello one and all,
> 
> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
> vlc on amd64?
> 
> Any wikis?
> 
> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?

My understanding is that win32codec is generally not 64bit safe, but 
they'd be fine on amd64 if you're running your OS as 32bit. If you're 
running in 64 bit then you'll need:

emerge -pv amd64codecs

kashani
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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Steve Dibb]

kashani wrote:
> James wrote:
>> Hello one and all,
>>
>> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
>> vlc on amd64?
>>
>> Any wikis?
>>
>> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
>> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
>> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
>> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?
> 
> My understanding is that win32codec is generally not 64bit safe, but 
> they'd be fine on amd64 if you're running your OS as 32bit.

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.

Steve
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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Daniel Iliev]

Steve Dibb wrote:
> kashani wrote:
>> James wrote:
>>> Hello one and all,
>>>
>>> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
>>> vlc on amd64?
>>>
>>> Any wikis?
>>>
>>> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
>>> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
>>> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
>>> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?
>>
>> My understanding is that win32codec is generally not 64bit safe, but
>> they'd be fine on amd64 if you're running your OS as 32bit.
>
> 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.
>
> Steve


Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use
win32codecs

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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Steve Dibb]

Daniel Iliev wrote:
> Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use
> win32codecs

And if anyone wants to help me version bump the thing, e-mail me *off* list, plz

Thanks

Steve


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[gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

[James]

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


Hmmmm,

So, I cannot use wind32codecs with *any* non-binary video program on
amd64, like vlc or mplayer.

But I can used 
media-libs/win32codecs
with a binary, such as 
mplayer-bin....

So  can I use win32codecs with:
seamonkey-bin ?
mozilla-firefox-bin ?
quake4-bin ?


How would one know which binary based multimedia/video/games packages work with
win32codecs?  

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Dan Farrell]

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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Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2007 19:33:36 +0000 (UTC)
James <wireless@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:

> Hello one and all,
> 
> What's the trick to getting win32codecs to install and work with
> vlc on amd64?
> 
> Any wikis?
> 
> I cannot seem to get VLC to compile in win32codecs on an amd64...
> Yes I realize that 'win32' and amd64 are different arches, but,
> surely there is a solution for this? Maybe not just with
> vlc but every app that can work with win32codes on amd64?
> 
> 
> 
> James
> 
> 
try this on for size:

pascal dan # emerge -s amd64codecs
Searching...   
[ Results for search key : amd64codecs ]
[ Applications found : 1 ]
*  media-libs/amd64codecs
      Latest version available: 20061203
      Latest version installed: 20061203
      Size of files: 240 kB
      Homepage:      http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
      Description:   64-bit binary codecs for video and audio playback
support License:       as-is
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