time to 64bit?

[Ian Malone]

Another post has just got me wondering, whether
the update to F7 is time for me to go to 64bit.
(The machine is an Athlon X2).  I'm quite attached
to using mplayer and find Flash increasingly
useful, so what is people's experience of 64bit
at the moment?

[Shams]

I love it, Fedora 6 x86_64 works a charm on my SATA,
Intel MB and Pentium D (dual core).

Though for Flash see this:
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html

Thanks
Shams

[Patrick Lists]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 23:44 +1200, Shams wrote:
> I love it, Fedora 6 x86_64 works a charm on my SATA,
> Intel MB and Pentium D (dual core).
>
> Though for Flash see this:
> http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux-amd64.html

Do any of the multimedia apps like xine and mplayer + wmv, avi, mpeg
codecs work native on x86_64? Last time when I had FC6 x86_64 on my
laptop it did not work unless you installed the 32bit version of those
apps. Anyone know if something has changed in the mean time?

Thanks,
Patrick
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> > (The machine is an Athlon X2).  I'm quite attached
> > to using mplayer and find Flash increasingly
> > useful, so what is people's experience of 64bit
> > at the moment?
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[Ingemar Nilsson]

Patrick  writes:
> Do any of the multimedia apps like xine and mplayer + wmv, avi, mpeg
> codecs work native on x86_64? Last time when I had FC6 x86_64 on my
> laptop it did not work unless you installed the 32bit version of those
> apps. Anyone know if something has changed in the mean time?

I don't know about the mplayer win32-codecs package, but for codecs mplayer
can handle without the binary win32-codecs package (such as mpeg, mpeg2,
mp3, xvid, etc), mplayer (and mencoder) works fine on x86_64.

Regards
Ingemar

[Ingemar Nilsson]

Patrick  writes:
> Do any of the multimedia apps like xine and mplayer + wmv, avi, mpeg
> codecs work native on x86_64? Last time when I had FC6 x86_64 on my
> laptop it did not work unless you installed the 32bit version of those
> apps. Anyone know if something has changed in the mean time?

I recently found x86-64 versions of the binary codecs here:

http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/

I did not test them yet though.

Regards
Ingemar

[Patrick Lists]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 17:18 +0200, Ingemar Nilsson wrote:
> Patrick  writes:
> > Do any of the multimedia apps like xine and mplayer + wmv, avi, mpeg
> > codecs work native on x86_64? Last time when I had FC6 x86_64 on my
> > laptop it did not work unless you installed the 32bit version of those
> > apps. Anyone know if something has changed in the mean time?
>
> I recently found x86-64 versions of the binary codecs here:
>
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
>
> I did not test them yet though.

Thanks for the info Ingemar. I was not aware the mplayer folks had 64bit
codecs too. To add to this possible solution, the Fluendo people sell
legally licensed codecs for both i386 and x86_64 here:
https://shop.fluendo.com/

I have not tried the 64bit versions of either but would not mind
supporting Fluendo by buying their set at 28 euros.

Now if only a 64bit Flash plugin and working ATI drivers for F7 became
available so I can move over to 64bit F7.

Hope this helps others too.

Regards,
Patrick

[Andras Simon]

On 6/18/07, Patrick  wrote:
> Now if only a 64bit Flash plugin and working ATI drivers for F7 became
> available so I can move over to 64bit F7.

Don't know about the ATIdrivers, but the 32 bit Flash plugin works
fine in 64 bit Firefox if you install nspluginwrapper.

Andras

[Patrick Lists]

On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 18:34 +0200, Andras Simon wrote:
> On 6/18/07, Patrick  wrote:
> > Now if only a 64bit Flash plugin and working ATI drivers for F7 became
> > available so I can move over to 64bit F7.
>
> Don't know about the ATIdrivers, but the 32 bit Flash plugin works
> fine in 64 bit Firefox if you install nspluginwrapper.

Thanks for the info. Will have a look at it.

Regards,
Patrick

[Vivek J. Patankar]

Ian Malone wrote:
> Another post has just got me wondering, whether
> the update to F7 is time for me to go to 64bit.
> (The machine is an Athlon X2).  I'm quite attached
> to using mplayer and find Flash increasingly
> useful, so what is people's experience of 64bit
> at the moment?

I am using FC6 64bit currently. mplayer manages to play almost 
everything that I throw at it. And flash is not a problem with 
nspluginwrapper (http://www.gibix.net/projects/nspluginwrapper/).

These are the related rpms that I currently have installed.

[veejay@marvin ~]$ rpm -qa|egrep "^mplayer|nsplugin"
mplayer-doc-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6
nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.90.4-1
mplayer-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6
mplayerplug-in-3.31-2.lvn6
mplayer-docs-1.0-0.33.rc1.fc6
mplayer-fonts-1.1-4.lvn6
nspluginwrapper-0.9.90.4-1
mplayer-gui-1.0-0.66.rc1.lvn6
mplayer-skins-1.8-1