Sriram,

Would there be any conflicts between 'pkg' and 'spkg' libraries??
Say, between vlc through 'spkg' and the one through pkg/lifewithsolaris?


-Siva


On 01/14/09 23:26, Sriram Narayanan wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Arun<arunck at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Hi!
>> Only last night I migrated to OpenSolaris, just to check what it is. I'm not 
>> a techie and dont know much about compiling and all.
>> After installation I couldnt play any multi media files. After checking 
>> crazily for a while I learnt about implementing decoder from Fluendo and now 
>> i'm able to play MP3's. But still couldn't find a way to play video files of 
>> any type: DVD, .avi, .wmv, .mpeg etc. No place - documentation site or 
>> forums gives me this detail.
>>
>
> Here's what I do with Belenix:
> - wget http:www.belenix.org/binfiles/SFEspkg.pkg
> - wget http:www.belenix.org/binfiles/SFEaxel.pkg
> - pkgadd -d .
> (note the dot in the previous line)
> - spkg updatecatalog
> - spkg install multimedia
>
> The last step downloads just about all multimedia codecs as well as
> mplayer and vlc from a non-US server.
> I am able to play just about every media format out there.
>
>> Can someone help me in setting things up to view video's?? As I said, I'm 
>> not a techie and if I cant play video's there is not point in staying here.
>
> I'm assuming that sound works for you already. If it doesn't, then you
> may want to install the oss package from
> http://www.opensound.com/solaris.html (I needed to do this even though
> Belenix has oss built in).
>
>> Thanks,
>> Arun
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