On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 15:45 -0600, Tres Melton wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-09 at 11:24 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > On the following link > > > > http://news.yahoo.com/fc/world/hurricanes_and_tropical_storms > > > > Just below the main story on the upper right there is a link for some > > video. I am unable to play this video so far on my AMD64 machine. I > > haven't got access immediately to try one of my 32-bit machines to > > compare. > > > > Does this work for anyone else? If so how did you manage to do it? > > I've emerged firefox-bin, realplayer 10.5, mplayer and lots of Java > > stuff. When I trace out the links it says it needs Realplayer Ver. 7. > > > > I know in the past there have been many issues with Yahoo not > > accepting Linux. Is that the root cause here? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > You can use a 32 bit chroot jail or the instructions to build a 32 bit > mplayer here: http://sh.nu/download/ebuilds/mplayer/ . Basically you > need to use win32codecs and they are only 32 bits so must be linked > against a 32 bit binary. >
Or you can just use mplayer-bin, which is already 32-bit and in portage. -- Daniel Gryniewicz Gentoo AMD64 Team -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
