On Wednesday 06 June 2007 22:09, Robert Huff wrote: > Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav writes: > > > In practice there's (almost) only one reason not to run > > > FreeBSD/amd64 on amd64-capable hardware: If you depend > > > on a certain piece of software which is known not to run > > > correctly in 64bit mode. Fortunately those are not many. > > > > The only one I can think of (for a desktop) is the Flash plugin. > > The last time I looked - a couple of months ago - I believe > mplayer was also not yet there. mplayer works fine, however a lot of the popular codecs are from the win32-codecs port and that is bound to a 32bit CPU. Something like the nspluginwrapper could probably be written, but.. urgh :) Hopefully someone will come out with win64-codecs soon ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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