[mythtv-users] Moving MythTV to new hardware -- CentOS vs. Scientific Linux (and 32vs64bit)

[Jarod Wilson]

On Apr 21, 2011, at 2:35 PM, Phil Bridges wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>> On Apr 21, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Ajay Sharma wrote:
>> 
>>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Jarod Wilson <jarod at wilsonet.com> wrote:
>>>> I've been running nothing but 64-bit systems for the better part of
>>>> a decade now, not sure why there would be any hesitation at all to
>>>> use 64-bit.
>>> 
>>> Only reason is for flash.  Right now flash on 32-bit linux systems
>>> supports VDPAU.  Flash on 64-bit systems works, but no hardware
>>> acceleration.
>> 
>> So just run 32-bit flash on your 64-bit host. :)
>> 
> 
> 
> How well is the 32-bit VDPAU-based Flash working, Jarod?

No clue, I'm not actually running such a setup right now. I've run a
32-bit flash on a 64-bit host plenty of times in the past without a
problem, but I don't think I've tried it any time recently with the
VDPAU-enabled flash player. There's no reason it should work though,
as there are 32-bit vdpau and nvidia library bits also available for
install on 64-bit hosts. (Actually, I take it back, there's one very
good reason it might not -- its flash player, 'nuff said).

-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com