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

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