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. 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... Thanks, Mark Thanks, Mark
