[ltp] 64-bit Linux on core-2-duo's?

[Hamie]

On Friday 24 November 2006 13:59, Andrew J. Barr wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 12:49 +0000, Hamie wrote:
> > Is anyone running  a 64bit distribution on a core2duo thinkpad out there
> > yet? If so, which distribution, and what's it like? Any problems (Beyond
> > no flash on web pages)?
>
> I run Debian unstable amd64 on a Core 2 Duo Intel Desktop Board machine.
> It seems much faster than 32-bit...especially for stuff like encoding
> video: I've been transcoding episodes of "Curb Your Enthusiasm" from
> DVDs and each 30-minute episode takes about 10 minutes to resize and do
> 2-pass XviD encoding.
>

Ah... Nice...


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>
> As for Flash, you can use nspluginwrapper from what I understand.
> Myself, I only ever used Flash for Youtube and here's the 64-bit
> solution to that:
>
> http://simbab.livejournal.com/26985.html
>
> All free software too. Gnash is also useful...it doesn't do video yet
> but it does do a lot of everything else.
>

Ah cool. Thanks for that. 

Hamish.