Re: x86_64 media players

[Mark Lane <mark harddata com>]

On April 25, 2004 11:42 am, Satish Balay <balay fastmail fm> wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Apr 2004, shrek-m gmx de wrote:
> > Neal Becker wrote:
> > >Alan Cox wrote:
> > >>On Sat, Apr 24, 2004 at 08:21:21PM -0400, Neal Becker wrote:
> > >>>I have a helix player, but all it does is segfault.  I tried building
> > >>>mplayer, but it thinks x86_64 doesn't support those formats.  Any
> > >>> ideas?
> > >>
> > >>Build mplayer for x86-32 ?
> > >
> > >How?
> >
> > perhaps:
> >
> > download the source  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
> >
> > $ cd /usr/local/MPlayer*
> > $ ./configure --help | less
>
> How about just point yum to i386 repostioris - and let it take care of
> the dependencies?
>
Well it doesn't do a bad job but you will need to install by hand (with 
--force) any i386 packages in which their x86_64 counterparts have already 
been installed. Also you would need to point at the freshrpms or another 
addon repository as mplayer is not in Fedora Core.

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