[MPlayer-DOCS] Improvement to README for 64 bit essentials

[Diego Biurrun]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 09:04:09AM +0200, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:11:52AM +0200, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 10:19:13PM +0200, Wolfgang Knauf wrote:
> > > 
> > > I suggest an improvement to the file "README", section "STEP1: 
> > > Installing Binary Codecs".
> > > Add something like this:
> > > "For 64 bit linux: first place the 32 bit essentials in the binary codes 
> > > directory, then replace the 32 bit libraries with the 64 bit versions 
> > > from the 64 bit essentials package."
> > > 
> > > This small hint might have prevented a silly noob like me from compiling 
> > > a 32 bit MPlayer, because a real media file caused a "wrong ELF32_CLASS" 
> > > error in a 32 bit codec ;-).
> > 
> > I cannot make heads or tails of your explanation.
> 
> I think the idea is to explicitly say that there is a 64 bit codec
> package and at least for real there is no need to compile a 32 bit
> MPlayer (probably the 32 and 64 bit codecs also have the same name which
> makes things even more confusing, so it might be worth saying that they
> aren't the same despite the same name).

I've made an attempt to improve the README.

Diego