Hi all,
I've installed etch on an Amilo amd64 laptop and it simply works great !
Problem is, I can't get the W32codecs, flashplayer is
not available either.
I've done lots of research, been to Marillat's homepage, checked that
my sources.list shows the correct link to his repository for multimedia,
even been to apt-get.org to check whether other sources would be available,
nothing goes.
Is it just because wincodecs are not available for amd64 ?
Has anybody had the same problem and could someone help me ?
Thanks.

Yep, no such things are available, the codecs and flashplayer are 32-bit only.

Do what alot of others have done, install the needed 32-bit libs alongside the 64-bit counterparts. Then use the 32-bit versions of a browser like firefox and a multimedia player like mplayer for examples.

I'm Red Hat based and have done this myself;

$ uname -a
Linux Aspire5000 2.6.19.1 #1 Thu Dec 14 20:12:35 EST 2006 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ rpm -qa --qf="%{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}.rpm\n" firefox 'mplayer*' | sort
firefox-2.0-2.fc7.i386.rpm
mplayer-1.0-0.28.pre8.fc5.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-20060611-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-extra-20060611-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.fc.noarch.rpm
mplayerplug-in-3.31-2.fc6.i386.rpm

Should be able to use 'gnash', the open source for flash. Not sure if it's in etch though, but is in Sid.

also for win32codecs on 64 u can use chroot method:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=54399

http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64#...ot_environment

if that also fails extract below codecs to /usr/local/lib/codecs/ and add this path to mplayer or xine
http://ftp5.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/rel...050412.tar.bz2