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grahem221
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 Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:22 am Post subject: codecs |
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| hi i want to be able to play loads of audio type files (mp3,ogg etc) and video files (avi) can someone please tell me all the codecs and other pieces of software i need to emerge to do this and what i should put in my /etc/make.conf? |
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ichbinsisyphos
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:37 am Post subject: |
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that depends a little on what player you want to use.
but it should be enough to set the right use flags.
or better, switch to the desktop profile, which should take care of most multimedia USE flags.
| Code: | eselect profile list
eselect profile set x |
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grahem221
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: |
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so what should i do then to switch to the desktop profile? (i'm kinda new to gentoo so i don't know much about USE)
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bjlockie
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| Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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Mine:
USE='nptl nptlonly arts 3dnow vorbis alsa ogg mp3 mad ppds hal cairo X pdf v4l
v4l2 threads ieee1394 dbus WxWidgets java' |
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ichbinsisyphos
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| grahem221 wrote: | | so what should i do then to switch to the desktop profile? (i'm kinda new to gentoo so i don't know much about USE) |
use eselect, as i said in my previous post. if its not installed, emerge it.
to see a list of available profiles use:
| Code: | | eselect profile list |
choose the 2007 desktop one and type
| Code: | | eselect profile set x |
where x is the number associated with the right profile.
afterwards you need to update your system:
| Code: | | emerge -uNDav world |
if you then still have problems, you can add USE flags in /etc/make.conf. theres a line 'USE="..." ' where you just add additional flags.
to get an idea of what USE flags a package supports, you can just do
| Code: | | emerge -pv packagename |
and take it slow  |
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