From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HD9c1-0002mD-Ud for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:22:42 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l131LYJF020166; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 01:21:34 GMT Received: from alnrmhc12.comcast.net (alnrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.225.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l131HGBX015150 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 01:17:17 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.2] (c-24-10-220-25.hsd1.ut.comcast.net[24.10.220.25]) by comcast.net (alnrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20070203011715b1200k4lske>; Sat, 3 Feb 2007 01:17:15 +0000 Message-ID: <45C3E2AF.9010000@gentoo.org> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 18:17:35 -0700 From: Steve Dibb User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.9) Gecko/20070129 SeaMonkey/1.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vlc win32codecs on amd64 References: <45C3A81D.7080306@badapple.net> In-Reply-To: <45C3A81D.7080306@badapple.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e74600dc-1878-466f-a1b0-aca1cc81751f X-Archives-Hash: 9b192085f808410e9051f9a627152cf3 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 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list