> Following Lewis Thompson's tutorial, I have successfully compiled MPlayer: > > http://blogs.sun.com/lewiz/entry/compiling_mplayer_on_opensolaris_2008#comments > > Now, how do I make mplayer the default player when playing videos from > Firefox? Thanks.
You don't even need any of the Blastwave stuff to make it compile. On OpenSolaris, the GNU tools are in the path by default. Install gcc-dev (which also pulls all the headers) from the main repository and there you go. If you intend to make use of CPU optimizing CFLAGS, be sure to add -fomit-frame-pointer, too, otherwise the H264 code likely breaks compilation. -mg
