>>>>> Voted MPlayer, since multimedia's important to regular users. Would have >>>>> been happier if there were a completish set of gstreamer codecs as >>>>> option. To get things like Songbird, Totem and its Mozilla plugin >>>>> working out of the box with most stuff.
> For what I know, MPlayer can make use of the *.dll codecs files > directly, and support a big bunch of formats. That's what's provided in > the mplayer-codecs spec file actually. This could be even harder to > accept from a distribution's point of view. As the OP hinted at, the GStreamer Plugins cover most of the needed codecs, and for the proprietary ones, Fluendo license them (although I don't know if they have Solaris builds.. the website only links to Linux builds), so it is possible to have full multimedia support and no worries about "encumbrances". http://www.fluendo.com/ Some Linux distros bulk license the codecs through Fluendo so that the support is effectively there out-of-the-box. C.
