Re: w64codecs and mplayer-nogui

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Author: Maik Zumstrull
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To: harreld
CC: dmo-discussion
Subject: Re: w64codecs and mplayer-nogui
> As far as I understood it correctly, w64codecs is moreless the same for
> 64-bit machines as w32codecs is for 32-bit machines...:-s


The idea is the same, but most of the codecs in the w32codecs package
are simply not available as amd64 binaries, and therefore missing in
w64codecs.

w32codecs Installed-Size: 48 MB
w64codecs Installed-Size: 492 KB

If your stream really needs a codec that isn't available, you'll have
to play it using an i386 version of mplayer. Your stream plays for me,
though. The audio is WMA Pro, which current ffmpeg can handle.

There was some work done at one point to allow the amd64 version of
mplayer to load i386 DLLs, but I think it was never accepted. It ends
up being way to hackish. I don't know what's happening in the area of
x64-DLLs, if any codecs are available as such, and if they can be
loaded by mplayer.