Re: [gentoo-user] convert wmv to mp4?

[Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 8:51 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:42 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 7:54 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:

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>>> Maybe a 32-bit Gentoo chroot that doesn't maintain any desktop or X11,
>>> etc. could work? If I could convert the files at the command line
>>> using ffmpeg in 32-bit then that would be pretty manageable in terms
>>> of Gentoo work, assuming the ffmpeg package can be built as without
>>> any GUI stuff?
>>
>> I was just thinking that. I played with a chroot briefly just before
>> inara and kaylee bit it, and it seemed pretty trivial. Were it me,
>> that'd be the next thing I'd try. (But then, compiling is cheap for
>> me)
>>
>
> I think I'll try it in a Virtualbox VM first I instead of a chroot.
> That's pretty easy to deal with. Easy to back up. Easy to move to a
> different system down the road. No disk partitions, etc.
>
> Biggest issue for me is likely to be that I haven't done a 32-bit
> install in at least 6 years. No idea what to watch out for but I doubt
> it's any big deal. No idea how the 32-bit VM really does 32-bit when
> it's running on a 64-bit processor that's doing 64-bit all the time
> but I guess that's why we pay these Intel & Oracle people the big
> bucks, right? ;-)

Actually, it's pretty simple, and works just fine IME. I've run 32-bit
processes on 64-bit systems ever since I started using 64-bit Linux a
few years ago, and it's unavoidable if one does anything on 64-bit
Windows.

>
> And if I end up needing X in the 32-bit environment for some reason it
> will be easy to add that down the road.

For that, I imagine I'd use a TCP socket connecting to localhost. To
put it simply, X network transparency is simply awesome. Your x server
would run in your 64-bit environment, and your client app would run in
your 32-bit environment.

>
> It's a real drag about the hassles your machines have been going
> through. I hope you get by that soon.

I'm probably going to lose inara to Ubuntu 12.04, unless I get lucky
and manage to properly configure a tiny WYSE box I picked up at a
computer recycling center. If that works, I'm in good shape.


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