I will upgrade my system from AthlonXP to Athlon 64 Dual Core, probably this week-end. Soon, the distro that I'm using (Fedora) is scheduled to issue a new release (7), and I may take advantage of that to go from 32 bit to 64. The problem, of course, is multimedia. These are the things that must keep working: - Flash web pages - playing proprietary files such as WMA using Xine or Mplayer and the Windows DLL codecs - Java (OK, that's not strictly multimedia) I know that there's some voodoo that can be performed to enable Flash on 64 bit OSes. I think it requires to install the 32 bit browser, but I'm not sure what all the details are. But how about the Windows DLL codecs and Java? Can I just install the 32 bit Xine and Mplayer (along with all the 32 bit library dependencies) and it will all magically work? There might be some strict Fedora-related issues as well, and I will discuss those on the Fedora forum if I can't figure them out myself, but first I'd like to untangle the generic problem of doing multimedia on 64 bit distros. -- Florin Andrei http://florin.myip.org/