On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Beso <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2009/1/13 Mark Knecht <[email protected]>:
>> I'm curious. I have mplayer installed but amd64codecs is not. What use
>> flag turns that on?
>>
> first you need to unmask the package (it's hardmasked by portage for
> security issues)
> then you'll need to hack out with ebuilds that had them (like mplayer)
> which have them hard
> removed in the IUSE and then you could use them.
> i think that these should also be able to play wma9 files, but i'm not
> sure. i don't have them
> anymore installed and i'm not able to play any wma media.

the only files amd64codecs provides are these:

/usr/lib64/codecs/cook.so
/usr/lib64/codecs/drvc.so
/usr/lib64/codecs/sipr.so

i believe they are all related to Realaudio/realvideo and there are NO
other codecs (as opposed to the win32codecs pack which has various
things).

When all the real* stuff was masked recently, amd64codecs went along
with them. From package.mask:

# Steve Dibb <[email protected]> (5 Nov 2008)
# Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
# http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
media-video/realplayer
media-libs/amd64codecs
media-libs/realcodecs

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