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 >> -- >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org
