Re: mplayer and x86_64

On Friday, 08 July 2005 at 17:05, Matthias Saou wrote:
> Kevac Marko wrote :
> 
> > Where can i get mplayer and w32codec for x86_64?
> 
> You won't be able to use the w32codecs on x86_64 in any case. They're
> currently not compatible AFAIK.

Windows binary codecs are currently 32bit only and will work only with
32bit MPlayer binary. It's possible to use the codecs with the 32bit
version on x86_64.

> > I tried to build mplayer from freshrpms src.rpm, but i got errors in
> > allocating memory.
> 
> Yes, that's why the package isn't available on freshrpms.net. If anyone
> comes up with a patch or a woraround to fix the issue, I'll be more than
> happy to rebuild the package for x86_64!

There's currently a problem with some assembly code being miscompiled
either by gcc4 or gcc-3.3 (depending on which patch we[1] apply), so please
be patient and use gcc older than 4 to compile MPlayer while we[1] work this
out. I'm talking about the CVS version, of course. It may be possible to
backport some patches from current CVS to pre7, but I certainly won't do
it. I'll keep releasing CVS RPMs, though.

Regards,
R.

[1] "we" == MPlayer team

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