On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 20:29 -0500, Youri Podchosov wrote: > 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?
Hmm.. well it looks like I was mistaken. The ffmpeg plugin can't do mpeg2 :( For that you'll need to compile the "ugly" gstreamer plugins (and one of its dependencies - mpeg2dec): http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net/files/mpeg2dec-0.4.1.tar.gz Usual configure, make, make install (just make sure you add: --x-includes=/usr/X11/include to the configure stage) http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-plugins-ugly/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.7.tar.bz2 Same as the gst-ffmpeg plugin compilation - requires gld. Make sure that the configure script picks up the mpeg2dec library. -Mark _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
