On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman >> <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >> >> And presumably for all the same reasons, if I cannot play them I >> cannot convert them. >> >> Ah, a world full of unspecified, proprietary vendor specific file >> formats hidden in old dlls... Ain't it a fine world we live in? >> >> Sort of painful to start maintaining a 32-bit chroot just to handle >> this sort of thing. I suspect there's some freeware for the Windows >> world that might allow me to do the conversion in a VM. I'll start >> looking for that. The web site that advertised conversion didn't work >> as it bombed out after an hour. > > There used to be a 32-bit mplayer-bin package in portage that would > have made it simple, but that disappeared some time ago. > >> Maybe there's some simple binary install I could do - Fedora or >> Ubuntu, etc. - but my concern there is that those binaries might not >> play well inside my 64-bit Gentoo environ... > > If you can find a statically-linked 32-bit mplayer somewhere, and > emerge the win32codecs package on your machine, I think it has a > chance of working. >
Actually, going back to the title of the thread, I don't need to watch wmv files in 64-bit. I really only need to _convert_ them to mp4 so that I could watch them using xine, etc. or externally on the Kindle. 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?
