[mythtv-users] Any advantage going to 64 bit?

[Eric Sharkey]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Neil Cooper <neilcoo at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I was advised off 64bit when i bought my q6600 intel core2quad. As a
>> combined fe/be stuffed in a cupboard i seem to recall that there were
>> reports of all sorts of hassles 3 or 4 years ago when i bought this around
>> video and flash.
>> R
>
> It sounds like you got your advise from people who don't realise that most of those problems are Microsoft/Windows specific.

That's not really true.  Native 64-bit Linux versions of flash have
only been available relatively recently, and any video decoding based
on using w32 codecs won't work with 64-bit versions of mplayer and
such.  There's less of a need for such hacks these days, but it was a
legitimate warning 3-4 years ago.

Eric