Re: w64codecs and mplayer-nogui

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Author: Harreld Kuiper
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To: Maik Zumstrull
CC: dmo-discussion, brad
Subject: Re: w64codecs and mplayer-nogui
Hi Mark and Brad,

Thanks!
So maybe it has to deal with the version of mplayer or that other
decoders are being used.
Are you also using the "nogui" version of mplayer?
And what is it's software version?
and can you see which decoder it is using for the stream?

Harreld.



Op 15-9-2010 15:36, Maik Zumstrull schreef:
>> 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.
>
>
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