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From: Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  vlc win32codecs on amd64
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:17:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C3E2AF.9010000@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C3A81D.7080306@badapple.net>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2007-02-03  1:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-02 19:33 [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64 James
2007-02-02 19:58 ` Jakob Buchgraber
2007-02-02 21:06   ` [gentoo-user] " James
2007-02-02 21:37     ` Jakob Buchgraber
2007-02-02 20:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Jürgen Geuter
2007-02-02 21:07 ` kashani
2007-02-03  1:17   ` Steve Dibb [this message]
2007-02-03  2:09     ` Daniel Iliev
2007-02-03  3:03       ` Steve Dibb
2007-02-04  4:37       ` [gentoo-user] " James
2007-02-04 19:38         ` Dan Farrell
2007-02-02 21:07 ` [gentoo-user] " Dan Farrell

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