Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
There are already two ways to improve your multimedia support: 1 - Fluendo's codec pack: http://www.fluendo.com/shop/product/complete-set-of-playback-plugins/ 2 - The homeunix IPS repository: http://ips.homeunix.com:10906/ #1 is the fully licensed approach, #2 is the community packaged no cost variant - suit whichever suits your need (commercial or personal) For various legal reasons I very much doubt you will see any freely redistributable operating system with a company behind it shipping support for proprietary codecs. Hope this helps On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 16:09, Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? Will it have better support for formats such as latest Quicktime, Flash 10, Real, and Windows Media files? Also, what about support for these formats in the included Firefox browser? Are these changes, if any, already present in the current development builds? Just thought these things would make it much more viable as a 'day to day' desktop OS. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
It can't be better as Sun must be polite on laws in USA. Things that don't need proprietary codecs are without problems. Flash 10 is available in extra repository which you can get here pkg.sun.com or you can download it from Adobe pages. For other multimedia I can really recommend this site http://solaris.homeunix.com/ there you can find useful repository and manuals with help. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
Thanks all for the useful info! Just to confirm, do the plugins you referred to work in Firefox 3.5 for web content? And since the Fluendo plugins claim H.264 support, does that mean I *could* play Quicktime content such as apple.com/trailers? Again thanks for the pointers for a newbie! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? As multi-media also means playing and writing CD/DVD/PluRay media, part of the multimedia support is a working SCSI driver system. Since a year, the SCSI subsystem from Solaris has so many bugs that: 1) People with PATA cannot check whether there was a problem (SCSI error messages including DMA resudial count are no longer reported). 2) People with SATA cannot play as the Generic SCSI passthrough does not set up DMA and as 1) prevents applications from detecting 2). 3) People with drives connected via USB suffer from various additional problems, including disregared timeouts, hangs and problems with odd DMA counts. Related Bug Reports are in the Solaris bugtracking systems but there is no real progress with fixing the problems. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? As multi-media also means playing and writing CD/DVD/PluRay media, part of the multimedia support is a working SCSI driver system. Since a year, the SCSI subsystem from Solaris has so many bugs that: 1) People with PATA cannot check whether there was a problem (SCSI error messages including DMA resudial count are no longer reported). 2) People with SATA cannot play as the Generic SCSI passthrough does not set up DMA and as 1) prevents applications from detecting 2). 3) People with drives connected via USB suffer from various additional problems, including disregared timeouts, hangs and problems with odd DMA counts. Related Bug Reports are in the Solaris bugtracking systems but there is no real progress with fixing the problems. Jörg Hi! Unfortunately Joerg is right. I can especially confirm 3). I reported that problem long ago (only to list). It is impossible to use my external USB2PATA connected DVR burner for writing. I get exactly what Joerg describes. Long long ago (before build 30 or earlier) and with the then current Solaris 10 builds (FCS and U1) I did not have this problem. Now I have it always (on SPARC and x64). If I connect the exact same burner/media to ieee1394 (on Blade 2000 or 150), everything works just fine. With USB there is NO way. Not even with cdrecord and its option driveropts=burnfree. Let alone the cdrw joke-utility which does not support buffer-underrun-free protection and fails straight at its beginning ... Joerg is not telling nonsense. %martin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:40 AM, Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Joerg Schilling joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: Pen-Yuan Hsing peny...@hotmail.com wrote: General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? As multi-media also means playing and writing CD/DVD/PluRay media, part of the multimedia support is a working SCSI driver system. Since a year, the SCSI subsystem from Solaris has so many bugs that: 1) People with PATA cannot check whether there was a problem (SCSI error messages including DMA resudial count are no longer reported). 2) People with SATA cannot play as the Generic SCSI passthrough does not set up DMA and as 1) prevents applications from detecting 2). 3) People with drives connected via USB suffer from various additional problems, including disregared timeouts, hangs and problems with odd DMA counts. Related Bug Reports are in the Solaris bugtracking systems but there is no real progress with fixing the problems. Jörg Hi! Unfortunately Joerg is right. I can especially confirm 3). I reported that problem long ago (only to list). It is impossible to use my external USB2PATA connected DVR burner for writing. I get exactly what Joerg describes. Long long ago (before build 30 or earlier) and with the then current Solaris 10 builds (FCS and U1) I did not have this problem. Now I have it always (on SPARC and x64). If I connect the exact same burner/media to ieee1394 (on Blade 2000 or 150), everything works just fine. p.s. My x64 Laptops do not have (on-board) FireWire. Therefore I am always forced to use to tiny crappy slow Laptop-internal mini burner. It would be nicer to use the external USB-connected recorder again. I mean: I do not care. I will of course continue to use OpenSolaris. But what about interested (then one-time) newcomers? See the point? %martin ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
Martin Bochnig mar...@martux.org wrote: With USB there is NO way. Not even with cdrecord and its option driveropts=burnfree. Well, some USB converters work with Solaris and the USB converters that do not work on Solaris work on Linux. It seems that there are problems in the USB mass storage driver that encapsules SCSI over USB. Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de(uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
Re: [osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
Good points. What about bluetooth and better graphics support? There are many things needed to attract new users or make people switch. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
[osol-discuss] Multimedia support in OpenSolaris 2010.02?
General question: What is the situation of multimedia support in the upcoming OpenSolaris 2010.02? Will it have better support for formats such as latest Quicktime, Flash 10, Real, and Windows Media files? Also, what about support for these formats in the included Firefox browser? Are these changes, if any, already present in the current development builds? Just thought these things would make it much more viable as a 'day to day' desktop OS. Thanks! -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
