[clue-tech] Gentoo discussion was: Distro musings

[Collins Richey]

On 8/1/06, Ken MacFerrin <lists at macferrin.com> wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > And here's what I get. Even if I through in all the extras you have,
> > win32codes does not show up in the list of used variables.
> >
> >
> > emerge -pv  mplayer
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > [ebuild   R   ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_pre8  USE="X alsa arts dvd
> > encode gif ipv6 jpeg opengl png samba sdl unicode xv -aac -aalib -bidi
> > -bindist -bl -cdparanoia -cpudetection -custom-cflags -debug -dga
> > -directfb -doc -dts -dv -dvb -dvdread -esd -fbcon -ggi -gtk -i8x0
> > -jack -joystick -libcaca -lirc -live -livecd -lzo -mad -matrox
> > -musepack -nas -nvidia -openal -oss -rtc -speex -tga -theora -truetype
> > -v4l -v4l2 -vorbis -x264 -xanim -xinerama -xmms -xvid -xvmc" 0 kB
> >
> >
>
> Yep. I just verified what you show on my kid's amd64 box.  It looks like
> the win32codecs USE flag must be specific to x86.  He does have the
> codecs working fine with mplayer-bin though:
> # emerge -a win32codecs mplayer-bin
>

mplayer works just fine to show movie trailers from firefox, but no
sound. I've tried both under kde and xfce. The only thing I can get to
produce sounds is aplay.


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Collins Richey
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