Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (342 mails)

[Klaas Hofstra <suse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

In order to play .wmv files and other windows multimedia formats I've used the 
wincodec RPM on my 32-bit machine. I'd like to use those same windows codecs 
on my 64-bit machine. It is my understanding that 64-bit Mplayer/Xine can't 
use 32-bit dll files. Therefore, I've tried to install a 32-bit version of 
those players.

I've tried to install a 32-bit version of Xine by selecting a 32-bit packman 
version of xine-ui and libxine using Yast (I added packman to Yast sources). 
The install went OK and all dependencies should have been OK. But when I 
tried to run xine it reported that the shared lib libcurl could not be found. 
A 64-bit version of libcurl is installed but I was unable to install a 32-bit 
version without removing the 64-bit version (using Yast). Next, I copied 
libcurl from a 32-bit system to /usr/lib on my 64-bit machine. When i started 
xine, my machine crashed, hardly the result I was looking for.

Does anyone know a way to get the 32-bit codecs working on my 64-bit machine?


Thanks in advance,
Klaas

P.S. Is there a way to search the list archives? Browsing the archives is just 
not very efficient...