Re: 64 bit

From: Ron Johnson (ron.l.johnson_at_cox.net)
Date: 02/09/05

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Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 17:09:24 -0600

    On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 17:51 -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
    > Ron Johnson wrote:
    > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 11:39 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
    > >
    > >>Quoting Rodney Richison <rodney@rcrcomputing.com>:
    > >>
    > >>
    > >>>Ok, my personal machine, the MB died. Sooooo, should I do a 64bit board
    > >>>as a replacement or wait?
    > >>>
    > >>
    > >>Do you want a machine that will do very heavy duty workload (large video
    > >>editing and database apps)? If so, then yes.
    > >
    > >
    > > For DB, yes, but only video editing if you are running specialized
    > > apps. Why? w32codecs doesn't natively run in 64 bit mode.
    > >
    >
    > You shouldn't be encoding video with w32codecs anyway, you should be
    > using libavcodec[which is pretty much the default for mencoder as much

    I was thinking more of viewing afterwards. The answer was a bit
    jumbled/imprecise. :(

    > as their is a default[you have to explicitly set the video codec to
    > something, I think]] or possibly libxvidcore, both of which are open
    > source[though I have no idea as to their 64-bit support]. The vast
    > majority of my video doesn't require w32codecs at all[ie any divx/xvid
    > is well supported natively]. Not sure what you mean by 'specialized apps'.

    The expensive closed-source NLEs. 

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