On Saturday 15 April 2006 20:22, Hans du Plooy wrote: snip
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
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