On Tue, 2008-05-27 at 14:08 +0200, "Thommy M. Malmstr??m" wrote: > 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.
Then, it appears you might need to install it from the packages :) Matthew
