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

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Sunday, 26 October 2008 at 21:03, Wolfgang Knauf wrote:
> 
> >> The 32 bit essentials package contains the full set of files (e.g. 
> >> "drvc.so"), while the 64 bit contains only those libraries, which are 
> >> compiled in 64 bit (again "drvc.so" and a few others). So, it seems that 
> >> on a 64 bit machine, you have to first extract the 32 bit binaries, and 
> >> replace SOME files with the 64 bit versions.
> > 
> > No, we made those packages the way they are for a reason.  They contain
> > all the necessary parts, nothing else needed.
> 
> That's strange: the 32 bit package contains 64 files (*.dll, *.ax, 
> *.acm, ...), while the 64 bit package contains only 4 files (*.so). So, 
> 60 codec files are not necessary on 64 bit linux? At least, this should 
> be mentioned in the readme to avoid confusion.

We simply don't have those 60 other codecs in 64bit versions.

> >> PS: Hope I did not top-post again (I just reply in Thunderbird)
> > 
> > You failed.  Next time please read Google's first hit on the
> > subject, then you don't have to make wrong assumptions.
> > 
> 
> That's no top post, I hope ;-)

Yes, that's better.

Regards,
R.

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