On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 14:17 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > > 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.
Indeed. I was referrering really to Nevada (and the duplicated packages that would be installed if a "pkg-get totem" was run - gnome et al). > > Remember that blastwave happened out of a grassroots community effort to > address serious problems that existed at that time. I applaud that effort, blastwave has helped many a Solaris user. > > It could certainly use a facelift and some modern touches but all in all it > *is* a community software service for Solaris users. Thanks, -Mark _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
