Mark Phalan wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-19 at 07:24 -0800, Euan Thoms wrote: >>>> How well supported is multimedia (mpeg, avi, wmv >>> etc) going to be in project >Indiana? I ask this >>> because it sucks in Solaris 10 and even Nevada / >>>> OpenSolaris builds that i have trialled to date. >>> Euan, >>> Multimedia on Solaris is well supported as it was >>> about 3-4 years ago. Not as up-to-date as the latest >>> Ubuntu distros, depending if you use Nexenta or not, >>> but you can play DVDs, play FOSS 3D games, and listen >>> to various audio playbacks. >>> Some things require licensing, or self compilation or >>> packages, and other things require a bit of time and >>> patience. Recently the OpenGL 3D component was fixed >>> so now things like 3D screensavers and game >>> development/porting are very possible wit Indiana. >> >> That may be the case and glad to hear it, but in ubuntu it all works >> out-the-box which to me makes a huge difference. I spent ages trying >> to get a media player to work to no avail. I read somewhere the codecs >> seem to be revoked for totem due to a licensing issue, but then how >> come ubuntu has them as a restricted download (automated). I dug >> around and mplayer is available for ssolaris also one called VLC which >> i liked on Windows but I had to compile it myself. What's that all >> about, can't one person do it and share the binaries? > > 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. > > A subset of the formats ffmpeg supports: > > mpeg4 (divx) > h264 > mpeg2 > mp3 > > and many many others. > > I know its a pain to compile stuff and we really should be thinking > about how to offer users access to codecs in a similar way to Ubuntu.
Mark, that's a very neat solution, but what's the trick to make this thing really work? On a full, pristine SXCE 82, I build libgstffmpeg.so and make it available from /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10. gst-inspect shows everything about ffmpeg plugin as expected, user's private GStreamer plugins cache (~/.gstreamer-0.10/registry.i386.xml) is correctly (re)constructed and properly reflects ffmpeg presence, too, but running totem against a MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 stream yields the message: "The playback of this movie requires a MPEG-1/2 System Stream demuxer plugin which is not installed." What's the catch? What does totem want? Thanks! -- /ynp _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
