[MPlayer-users] Help with 32bit mplayer

[Deron Kazmaier]

On 9/17/11 6:34 PM, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2011, at 20:46, Deron Kazmaier<deron at pagestream.org>  wrote:
>> But now when i try and play video to the decklink card, mplayer tells me:
>>
>> [decklink] Could not find a Decklink device
>>
>> My only guess is that I need a 32bit kernel module?
> Any 64 bit kernel module passing basic quality standards will be able to service both 32 and 64 bit applications. I can't say what the quality of that module is though.

Ok, that is good to know. It may be that the mplayer patch (written 2 
years ago) has a problem. I think I'll build a 64 bit version and try 
that one before I go any further.


>> I can _NOT_ use 32bit verison of the OS, or 64 bit version of mplayer (at least until someone release a 64bit codec for Apple ProRes, sigh...) so please don't suggest that!
> Uh, FFmpeg and thus MPlayer since yesterday includes a ProRes decoder.
> There is just a bit of a license compatibility issue so I think you'll have to use the proposed patch (see dev-eng list) or hack configure yourself to enable it.

Hey, great news! Now I just need to update from the svn? and apple the 
patch. Where do I send the beer?

Thanks for your help!!

Deron