Bug 4541

Summary:	mplayer and avifile win32 codecs
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Lapo Calamandrei <l_calamandrei>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lapo Calamandrei 2002-07-04 13:30:36 UTC

Those are useless for ppc, mplayer should not depend on that, I believe -avi
should be in the default ppc USE

Comment 1 Lapo Calamandrei 2002-07-04 13:31:42 UTC

mplayer ebuild doesn't mind of USE="avi" :-( it should

Comment 2 Mark Guertin 2002-07-04 13:36:45 UTC

I will double check this tonight, but AFAIK I am able to use all the win32
codecs with my PPC at home (it's just file formats not binaries).  I build with
USE="avi" and got usable items IIRC.

Comment 3 Lapo Calamandrei 2002-07-04 13:39:54 UTC

NOTE: WIN32 codec DLLs are not supported on your CPU (ppc).
You may encounter a few AVI files that cannot be played due to missing
opensource video/audio codec support.

from mplayer ./configure output

Comment 4 Mark Guertin 2002-07-04 14:09:06 UTC

Ok... these codecs do not work on ppc, you are right there....but without them
mplayer will not install.. You will have to live with the space they take up,
removing them is not a good option IMHO.

Comment 5 Mark Guertin 2002-07-04 14:14:32 UTC

Also it is current impossible to remove those codecs even if it was desired for
a single ARCH at this point in time without nasty hacks.

Comment 6 Aurelus 2004-02-13 10:13:12 UTC

Is it currently more feasible? I'd suggest to make win32codecs an optional package for all architectures. It's currently not possible not to install it when installing mplayer, and I simply don't want to have to do anything with Windows.