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Re: [suse-amd64] Hardware advice for upgrade.
- From: Johan Middendorp <johan.middendorp@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:12:51 +0200
- Message-id: <200604152212.51800.johan.middendorp@xxxxxxxxx>
On Saturday 15 April 2006 20:22, Hans du Plooy wrote:
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>
> Yes, but the issue is a bit more complex. Some things aren't available
> in 64bit, and where you run programs that depend on 32bit libraries, you
> run into trouble. For example, mplayer can use windows codecs to play
> stuff like quicktime and windows media video and a host of other formats
> that don't have proper opensource tools available. However, the windows
> codecs are 32bit, so mplayer needs to be 32bit. Now if you just watch
> the occasional clip, this isn't much of a problem and the packman rpms
> would do you well. But if you're serious about your multimedia, you
> find that you have to have many more things installed as 32bit
> binaries/libraries in order for it to work well. I've gotten myself
> tied up so badly in this I'm thinking of just loading 32bit SUSE again,
> seeing as I do very few things that could benifit from 64bit processing.
>
> Hans
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Does anybody know if somewhere a more proper solution like 64-bit codecs is
being worked on?
--
Johan Middendorp
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fax +31 (084) 735 6952
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>
> Yes, but the issue is a bit more complex. Some things aren't available
> in 64bit, and where you run programs that depend on 32bit libraries, you
> run into trouble. For example, mplayer can use windows codecs to play
> stuff like quicktime and windows media video and a host of other formats
> that don't have proper opensource tools available. However, the windows
> codecs are 32bit, so mplayer needs to be 32bit. Now if you just watch
> the occasional clip, this isn't much of a problem and the packman rpms
> would do you well. But if you're serious about your multimedia, you
> find that you have to have many more things installed as 32bit
> binaries/libraries in order for it to work well. I've gotten myself
> tied up so badly in this I'm thinking of just loading 32bit SUSE again,
> seeing as I do very few things that could benifit from 64bit processing.
>
> Hans
snip
Does anybody know if somewhere a more proper solution like 64-bit codecs is
being worked on?
--
Johan Middendorp
This mail comes to you from a SuSE Linux box
mobile phone +31 (06) 260 42 557
fax +31 (084) 735 6952
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