On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 14:08 +0200, ronald wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 13:03 +0200, Gilboa Davara wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 02:31 -0500, M.Lewis wrote: > ... > > > Performance: > > At least on AMD Athlon64/Opteorn based machines x86_64 -is- fast. By how > > yep. > > > Software: > > Everything 32bit runs in 64bit. > > -However-, if you install a 64bit browser, you'll lose flash. > > If you install a 64bit mplayer/xine, you'll lose the ability to use > > 32bit Windows codecs. > > just checked. > this is *not* the case. > wmv files 'playing well with xine on x86_64 with the codecs from the > mplayer site. afaik 32bit codecs ! > You most likely using the xine/mplayer build it wmv support. It'll most likely fail if you try running newer (WMP9/10) files. Maybe when wine64 is released, Xine/Mplayer will be able to use its code to run 64bit codecs taken from Vista's 64bit WMP (if and when Microsoft finally releases a -64bit- version of WMP). - Gilboa
