Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > 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?
OpenSolaris 2008.05 > Does /usr/ucblib/libucb.so.1 exist in your system? Nope.
