Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-14 Thread B. Nice
On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Is there anyway to enable win32codecs on my AMD64 machine? I tried adding it in package.use but it still shows up like (-win32codecs) when I loko at emerging a package like mplayer. Maybe there is some way to build mplayer as a 32-bit

Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-14 Thread Christoph Mende
On Wed, 13 Jun 2007 20:17:12 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, with mplayer-bin I am able to play the files I was interested in however I've not heard of amd64codecs before. Is there some way to link this into mplayer as a replacement for win32codecs? The Gentoo Online database

Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-14 Thread Isidore Ducasse
le Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:58:45 -0400 B. Nice [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 19:26 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: If you're not married to the idea of using mplayer, vlc works well on an amd64 and plays pretty much every file format I've ever come across. I haven't installed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] win32codecs on AMD64?

2007-06-14 Thread Christoph Mende
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 18:53:32 +0200 Isidore Ducasse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It _is_ 64 bits. Besides, vlc can use your hardware acceleration chipsets, whereas mplayer can't (it's a software-rendering player). And confirming what you mention, I was surprised to notice that vlc can play wma and

[gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better way to do this with other software? I've fiddled around with renicing mythfrontend but even going to -15 didn't

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Hemmann, Volker Armin
On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better way to do this with other software? I've fiddled around

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV? Or is there some better

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Mike Doty
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/14/07, Hemmann, Volker Armin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Donnerstag, 14. Juni 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: I'm wondering if anyone can recommend a good setting for PORTAGE_NICENESS that would allow some compiles in the background without drastically effecting MythTV?

Re: [gentoo-amd64] PORTAGE_NICENESS

2007-06-14 Thread Richard Freeman
Mike Doty wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: so do I actually use +19? the latter Yes, a -19 would certainly make for a VERY unusable system! I'm running a myth backend and I've found a few useful tricks: 1. Myth itself is run at nice -10. This was accomplished by editing the init.d script. 2.