On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Mark Knecht <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Paul Hartman > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Michael Mol <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Paul Hartman >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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.
There used to be a 32-bit mplayer-bin package in portage that would have made it simple, but that disappeared some time ago. > 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... If you can find a statically-linked 32-bit mplayer somewhere, and emerge the win32codecs package on your machine, I think it has a chance of working.
