On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 1 May 2012 12:30:11 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> Notice the (-win32codecs) flag. Seems to me (on this system anyway) >> they are hard masked off? I tried adding the flag to package.use but >> emerge won't enable the darn thing... > > You need to unmask the USE flag first, by adding -win32codecs > to /etc/portage/profile/use.mask
If he is using amd64 he can't use win32codecs unless he uses a 32-bit mplayer/ffmpeg. AFAIK.