On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 13:56 +0200, "Thommy M. Malmstr??m" wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 01:20 -0500, James Cornell wrote: > >> Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > >>>> That's a crock of crap. That's illegal. Talk about monopoly, > >>>> there's > >>>> no legal way for us to play that crappy format. > >>>> > >>> Actually, my reaction was more along the linues, "SUN has a wide ranging > >>> IP agreement with Microsoft - why isn't SUN utilising that agreement? or > >>> is this more "teh going to screw teh Microsoft formats"? > >>> > >>> Matthew > >>> > >>> > >> Heh, you got a point there... you know I am not one of those > >> "Open-source only" guys, I prefer other formats but I do encounter wmv a > >> fare amount of times throughout the month. Flip4Mac for example is a > >> working implementation probably based on wmv specifications, which > >> Microsoft gladly gave up for a little cash, since their format is more > >> important than money if you can spin it right. Sun definitely needs to > >> talk to Microsoft about this, since at the moment RealPlayer is one of > >> the few applications that is decent which can play mp3 and other > >> patented codecs, as there's still gstreamer (re)licensing gunk plugging > >> progress. Oh the joys of the GPL... but I don't go any farther with > >> that, except to say I'm suprised it took this long to get authors to > >> allow an exception, I'd dump those bits that can't get an exception. > >> > >> James > > > > There is always gmplayer/ffmpeg which can be downloaded off: > > > > http://ocean1.ee.duth.gr/SolarisX/ > > > > It works perfectly. > > Nah, I get > > $ /opt/gnu/bin/mplayer > ld.so.1: mplayer: fatal: libucb.so.1: open failed: No such file or directory > Killed
Well, sounds like an issue with your installation, because it works perfectly on mine. What version of Solaris are you running? Does /usr/ucblib/libucb.so.1 exist in your system? Matthew > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
