On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol <mike...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman > <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >>> On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >>> >>>> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) >>>> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but >>>> emerge won't enable the darn thing... >>> >>> You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs >>> to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask >> >> If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses a 32-bit >> mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK. > > Wouldn't using multilib work around this?
I think he would still need to compile a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg (in a 32-bit chroot) to be able to make use of them. Multilib would let him run 32-bit mplayer or ffmpeg binaries (which themselves would be able to use the 32-bit DLLs). But I don't think 64-bit mplayer/ffmpeg can call 32-bit DLLs. There is an amd64codecs package containing the 64-bit codecs, but it has been masked and made obsolete by the fact that mplayer/ffmpeg can natively do most (or all?) of those codecs these days.
