32bit multimedia software on 64bit Linux?

[Florin Andrei]

Jiri Dvorak wrote:
> I'd suggest not to run 64bit on a desktop system. 64bit might have its benefits
> in a server environment, but on a desktop you run into unnecessary trouble.

That's what I was afraid of.
This system must run multimedia stuff seamlessly, so I'd rather not do 
weird hacks.

OTOH, I wonder if MPEG2/DVD encoding (via mjpegtools), which is 
something I do often, wouldn't run slightly faster on a native 64 bit 
OS. It probably depends on the way the encoder is written, I guess.

Fortunately, I don't do any scientific calculations or anything like 
that, which would pretty much require a 64 bit machine with lots of RAM.

-- 
Florin Andrei

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