> I just meant Wine on AMD64, i.e. - the machines on this list. My > interest in using Wine for NetFlix will be multimedia intensive, so it > will likely require codec and stuff like that to work well. Much of > that stuff hardly works on 32-bit Linux. I was interested in whether > power users, not dummies like me, we able to get good results. If they > can then possibly by trying hard someone like me might. If they can't > then I know I never will.
Wine is a 32 bit application only. Wine can run on amd64, but it either requires the emul-linux-x86 libs installed (a multi lib setup) or a 32 bit chroot environment. So for all practical purposes, when running wine on amd64, you are really just running wine on a standard x86 platform. There is no 64 bit support for wine, and I doubt there ever will be support (at least in the next 10 years). As for the win32 codecs, the support has come a long way (at least on the native 32 bit platform). I have recently switched my amd64 platform back to x86 and I have not had too many problems playing streaming content for WMP and Real Audio. I can only assume that since the amd64 platform uses the same win32 codecs, the support should be similar. This, of course also assumes using the firefox-bin package along with a multi lib setup as all the codecs are only 32 bit. Now, if you are interested in getting IE running on Wine, you may want to look at: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Install_Internet_Explorer_6_SP1 It doesn't look like IE7 is supported on Wine yet but I would think NetFlix would work with IE6. Brett
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