On Friday 05 September 2008 13:41:39 luis jure wrote: > on 2008-09-04 at 10:47 Willie Wong wrote: > >Not quite sure what you mean. Please show: > > sorry i didn't make myself clear the first time. the problem is that the > x264 flag appears parenthesized, meaning that it's not available and > can not be set. > > this happens only on my amd64 laptop, not on my oldish x86 desktop. i > checked that the same happens with all packages that have a flag for > x264: mplayer, ffmpeg and libquicktime
That's strange as I have it installed here on this amd64 box: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ ls -ald /etc/make.profile lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 57 Aug 3 17:49 /etc/make.profile -> /var/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/2008.0/desktop/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ emerge -pv mplayer Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27458 USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac aalib alsa cdparanoia dga doc dts dv dvb dvd encode ftp gif iconv jpeg libcaca live lzo mad mmx mmxext mp3 musepack openal opengl png quicktime real rtc samba sdl speex srt sse sse2 ssse3 theora truetype unicode v4l v4l2 vorbis x264 xanim xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc (-altivec) -amrnb -amrwb -arts -bidi -bindist -bl -cddb -cdio -cpudetection -custom-cflags -custom-cpuopts -debug -dirac -directfb -dxr2 -dxr3 -enca -esd -fbcon -ggi -gtk -ipv6 -jack -joystick -ladspa -lirc -md5sum -mp2 -nas -nemesi -oss -pnm -pulseaudio -pvr -radio -rar -schroedinger (-svga) -teletext -tga (-vidix) (-win32codecs) -xinerama -zoran" VIDEO_CARDS="vesa -mga -s3virge -tdfx" 0 kB All I did to get it was copy my portage configs over from the old 32 bit machine. x264 is masked out of the standard amd64 profile: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r x264 /var/portage/profiles/* | grep amd64 /var/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/arch/amd64/use.mask:-x264 /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/use.mask:-x264 /var/portage/profiles/hardened/amd64/use.mask:# codec support x264 /var/portage/profiles/hardened/amd64/use.mask:-x264 But I didnt override this in a profile, just put it in USE: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r x264 /etc/portage/* /etc/portage/package.use/package.use:media-video/mplayer 3dnow 3dnowext -bl cdparanoia -gtk libcaca live lzo mmx mmxext musepack real rtc srt -tga x264 xanim xvmc -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot comg
