On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 05:38:10PM +0530, Manish Chakravarty wrote: > I want to use SXDE as my desktop OS at home. > How do i play multimedia on it? I've seen people playing DVDs and mp3's > on Solaris Express.
You could have a look at this fine mp3/ogg/flac/... player. It is a daemon running in the background and several frontends are available. In the CBE spec-files-extra repository there are *spec files to build the software. A short introduction how to set up the build environment is here http://sarine.nl/gmpc-solaris-build (I have to refresh this doc, but should still work) You can store your music on a central server and place the soundcard there or use shout streaming over the net and listen from each client to your favorite music (client: gmpc for X11/gtk, pitchfork for your browser and several others, setup n-instances of the daemon mpd and icecast) For playing videos I use mplayer from the same repository (spec-files-extra). Thomas --
