> > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 11:25 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: >> > Mark Phalan wrote: >> >> If you're still looking for a good solution for multi-media on >> >> OpenSolaris I've found that the the easiest path is to simply compile >> >> the ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer: >> >> >> >> Get it here: >> >> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2 >> >> >> >> It compiles out of the box (on Nevada) with gcc but has problems >> >> linking, I had to use the GNU linker to get it to link. Apart from the >> >> linking issue it's trivial to get going. >> >> >> >> Once you've built it just stick the plugin (libgstffmpeg.so) >> >> into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10. >> >> >> >> The advantage of doing this over compiling mplayer/vlc is that this >> >> enables all the gnome apps to be able to play pretty much any video >> >> format. You can use totem, the nautilus thumbnailer works etc. >> >> >> > >> > Interesting you mention totem. On OpenSolaris, totem can't play anything >> > as far as I can tell. I presume it's been built with no codecs at all, >> > and I wonder why we bother to supply it. On the other hand, totem >> > downloaded from blastwave can play lots of formats, and if you add >> > Windows media player DLLs to it from your own copy of Windows, it can >> > use those to play most of the windows format files too. We should be >> > shipping such a working build of totem with OpenSolaris (and hence >> > Indiana too). >> >> It will be made available ... from Blastwave and via IPS. Some effort and >> work is required but fret not good friend because there are good things >> happening. Community built software should and will be available ... with >> a >> whack of work. The issue at the moment is the IPS conversion as well as a >> few nits like post-install scripts etc etc. > > The "problem" with using blastwave on Nevada/Indiana is that you end up > with lots of duplication. In some ways blastwave (at least the last time > I used it) is its own distro.
Well yes and no. Duplication ? There are a lot of packages that outright duplicate the older things that are in Solaris 10 and things that don't exist at all in Solaris 9 or Solaris 8. So duplication depends on context. Remember that blastwave happened out of a grassroots community effort to address serious problems that existed at that time. It could certainly use a facelift and some modern touches but all in all it *is* a community software service for Solaris users. Dennis _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
