[lug] mplayer and WMV

Zan Lynx zlynx at acm.org
Tue Oct 11 10:05:01 MDT 2005


On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 09:47 -0600, Dan Ferris wrote:
> Thanks for the tip, that's what I thought.
> 
> I just installed the 32 bit version of Fedora Core 4 and the performance 
> is excellent.  Very happy with things.
> 
> No noticeable difference in performance either except for glxgears the 
> 64 bit drivers was giving about 2600 frames per second on my Geforce 
> 6600.  1800 or so on the 32 bit drivers.
> 
> Dan

Huh.  You didn't need to install a whole 32-bit OS.  64-bit Linux runs
32-bit programs just fine.  Well, once in a while you have problems with
missing libraries or ioctl's that are a bit off, but those get fixed
pretty quickly.

Oh well.
-- 
Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org>
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