codecs for amd64?

Hi...

I'm a debian user and my distro is a "pure" 64-bit. As I've found out, my 64-bit machine cannot play win32 codecs, or specifically wmv codecs.

Now normally this is not a problem, but the fact that I've got some assignments that require the use of a win32 wmv player. I'm not a windows user, and the debian work around of using chroot and basically having two OS's running on one machine is not really what I had in mind in buying a 64-bit machine.

Now the question is:

1.) Why is there no development of win64 codecs  for linux?

2.) How can I get the source for myself and compile the 64-bit dll's myself?

I love xine, and I do from time to time use mplayer...

Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated. 

What I've done so far is to recompile xine to 32-bit and run this in a chroot 32-it environment.
This means my system is not really configured properly and I have trouble now with getting regular updates from my mirror, here at uni...

Thanks for the time...


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