multimedia on 64 bit distros

I will upgrade my system from AthlonXP to Athlon 64 Dual
Core, probably 
this week-end.
Soon, the distro that I'm using (Fedora) is scheduled to
issue a new 
release (7), and I may take advantage of that to go from 32
bit to 64.

The problem, of course, is multimedia. These are the things
that must 
keep working:
- Flash web pages
- playing proprietary files such as WMA using Xine or
Mplayer and the 
Windows DLL codecs
- Java (OK, that's not strictly multimedia)

I know that there's some voodoo that can be performed to
enable Flash on 
64 bit OSes. I think it requires to install the 32 bit
browser, but I'm 
not sure what all the details are.

But how about the Windows DLL codecs and Java? Can I just
install the 32 
bit Xine and Mplayer (along with all the 32 bit library
dependencies) 
and it will all magically work?

There might be some strict Fedora-related issues as well,
and I will 
discuss those on the Fedora forum if I can't figure them out
myself, but 
first I'd like to untangle the generic problem of doing
multimedia on 64 
bit distros.

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> - Flash web pages

http://osrevolution.wordpress.com/2007/01/
15/usare-flash-su-etchamd64/

It's in italian, but there are cmdlines

> - playing proprietary files such as WMA using Xine or
Mplayer and the 
> Windows DLL codecs

vlc now does wmv

> - Java (OK, that's not strictly multimedia)

there's a 64 bit version already from sun

ciao,
Marco

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On 4/13/07, Marco Milanesi <kpanicmuppetslab.org> wrote:
> > - playing proprietary files such as WMA using Xine
or Mplayer and the
> > Windows DLL codecs
>
> vlc now does wmv
>

Using the 32 bit Windows .dlls, just like xine and mplayer.

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Hello,

I have 64 Studio running which is a fine distribution for
music. I got 
Java running in 64 bit and develop with Eclipse, no problems
here except 
it should be the latest from Suns website, not from the
repos.

Flash with the 32 bit browser trick.
Cheers,

Malte
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media art + development
-www.block4.com-
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On Fri Apr 13, 2007 at 02:48:40PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On 4/13/07, Marco Milanesi <kpanicmuppetslab.org> wrote:
> >> - playing proprietary files such as WMA using
Xine or Mplayer and the
> >> Windows DLL codecs
> >
> >vlc now does wmv
> >
> 
> Using the 32 bit Windows .dlls, just like xine and
mplayer.

most wmv, real, and flash plays in the latest ffmpegs, in a
reverse-engineered no-32bit-codecs fashion. 

tends to not work with stuff posted on youtube after a
certain date, however :/


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