Steve Dibb wrote: > 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
Additionally: mplayer-bin is in amd64's portage and mplayer-bin can use win32codecs -- Best regards, Daniel -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
