Have you tried Blastwave mplayer? I haven't tried it with many DVDs, but it's been very good for what I have tested it on. Note: Use "cdrecord -scanbus" to figure out the SCSI address of your DVD drive, and then call mplayer like this: /opt/csw/bin/mplayer dvd:// -dvd-device /dev/dsk/c3t0d0s2, but replace the numbers 3, 0 ,0 in the last part with the address given by cdrecord. The shock value when somebody sees you type that is priceless.
As for Skype, I believe there is a way to use the Linux version on Solaris. You'll have to Google that, and it's not pretty. You would do much better to use SIP, especially if you live in China, and Ekiga (aka "Video Conference") works out of the box, even on Linux nowdays. (For a proxy, Ekiga's own is good, and iptel.org is great.) Tom secret squirrel wrote: > seems like this is a good place to start moaning if you want skype for solaris > > http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=26856&st=20&gopid=1052331&#entry1052331 >
