[nflug] windows media player files

Robert F. Stockdale IV javabob at adelphia.net
Thu Jan 26 04:17:08 EST 2006


I'm familiar with the --newuse flag however, what is the "-uDa"  switch for. This thread has 
rekindled my interest in learning more about portage and emerge, but there is so much 
information to read.
Bob

David J. Andruczyk wrote:
> 
> --- "Robert F. Stockdale IV" <javabob at adelphia.net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>On my system (Gentoo 2005.1) Aviplay is the only program I've been
>>successful at getting wmv 
>>files to play. I also would like one program to handle all video
>>formats.
>>Bob
> 
> 
> You need to edit your USE flags in /etc/make.conf to get things like
> win32 codecs and whatnot enabled.. I use the following use flags (which
> might be excessive for your needs), just edit to taste.  You should
> open a second terminal and look at /usr/portage/profiles/use.desc as
> that describes what the use flags mean.
> 
> 
> My USE flags from /etc/make.conf:
> 
> USE="xanim real cdparanoia matroksa bidi nptl quicktime gif gui X aac
> 3dnow 3dnowext avi mythtv mmx mmxext sse sse2 network imagemagick a52
> divx4linux oggvorbis openal opengl gtk gtk2 gnome alsa kde -ldap xft
> freetype truetype dga rtc live xv tga svga libcaca lirc  ggi dts
> directfb aalib acl cdr cups curl dvd dv dvdread fame v4l2 win32codecs
> v4l fbcon encode dvb arts gstreamer esd foomaticdb xprint ppds jack
> java joystick jpeg mjpeg xvid nvidia theora mad mpeg pam ruby samba qt
> sdl usb videos wmf xmms ssl visualization"
> 
> For the basics you would need "win32codecs oggvorbis a52 divx4linux avi
> aac quicktime mad mpeg wmf xvid mjpeg jpeg gstreamer aalib dvd dv
> dvdread" and then mplayer and xinewill both be able to play windows WMV
> files.
> 
> Once you change your USE flags, you can run one thing that'll update
> your system to enable that functionality that you wanted.
> 
> "emerge --newuse -uDa world"  NOTE: this can be time consuming
> depending on how many packages the new use flags affect, but the wait
> is worthwhile.
> 
> The important one is "--newuse" as it tells portage to check all
> installed packagesagainst the new use flags and to recompile any
> package that depended on those flags.
> 
> 
> Dave J. Andruczyk
> 
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