Jeremy, the video runs just fine with VLC, thanks again! Jean Christophe, I just went to have a look at the Ubuntu site. It no longer states 64bit for AMD only, but does say 32 bits for machines with 2Gb or less RAM.
On 23 June 2014 12:06, Hendrik Boom <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 11:09:34AM -0400, Denis-André Desjardins. wrote: > > Thank you Jeremy, I'll try that. > > David, Ubuntu recommends installing the 64 bit OS only on machines with > an > > AMD 64bit CPU. > > When manufacturers realized that people would soon run out of address > space with the old intel 32-bit architecture (which Debian called > ia32), both intel and AMD > designed new instruction sets. > > Intel designed the Itanium, a completely new machine architecture. > This is the architecture that Debian calls ia64. It is completely > incompatible with ia32. > > AMD designed what Debian calls AMD64, a 64-bit architecture that's very > similar to the old ia32, except that a lot of places where ia32 had > 32-bit registers, addresses, or data paths, AMD64 had 64-bit regiters, > address, and data paths instead. THe result was also incompatibility, > except for one thing -- because 32-bit Windows systems were still > dominant on the market, AMD designed a special compatibility mode, in > which only 32 bits of all those things were used, and it was completely > conpattible with the old 32-bit ia32 systems. The result was a system > that was ready for the 64-bit future, and could still run all the old > 32-bit software, including the old 32-bit operating systems, though you > don't get the full advantages of the new architecture. > > I'm told that 64-bit Windows will still run old 32-bit programs by > putting the machine in 32-bit mode when running them. (anybody know > for sure?) > > Linux. now that multiarch is well on its way to realisation, can also > do this witth a 64-bit kernel if 32-bit libraries are installed. > > There's no copatibility in the opposite direction. 64-bit code just > will not run in 32-bit mode, and that's all the old ia32 cpu's have. > > You could of course run emulation software on the ole machines, but > you'd probably lose and order of magnitude in speed. > > -- hendrik > > > > > > > On 23 June 2014 10:15, Jer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > On 14-06-19 08:41 PM, Denis-André Desjardins. wrote: > > > > > >> I tried to run a video with movie player, and this is what happenedè > > >> "Could not find GStreamer caps mapping for FFmpeg codec 'h264', and > you > > >> are using an external libavcodec. This is most likely due to a > packaging > > >> problem and/or libavcodec having been upgraded to a version that is > not > > >> compatible with this version of gstreamer-ffmpeg. Make sure your > > >> gstreamer-ffmpeg and libavcodec packages come from the same > > >> source/repository." > > >> Any suggestions anyone? > > >> > > > > > > Install vlc and use that instead, I always run into codec problems > > > eventually with anything else. > > > > > > Jeremy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > mlug mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > > https://bureau.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > mlug mailing list > > [email protected] > > > https://bureau.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://bureau.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca >
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