Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > 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 :)
Yeah, if I only knew from which package. IPS is a little new to me...
