[osol-help] Building MPlayer

On the I think I should .. thread mention was made of MPlayer and how it was better for OpenSolaris than VLC (which I unsuccessfully tried to build). Anyway tried to build MPlayer Running make I fail with gcc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

Paul Johnston wrote: On the I think I should .. thread mention was made of MPlayer and how it was better for OpenSolaris than VLC (which I unsuccessfully tried to build). Anyway tried to build MPlayer Running make I fail with gcc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

I've compiled mplayer using the steps on a Sun blog without any problems and used gcc. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

This has been discussed in [url=http://opensolaris.org/jive/message.jspa?messageID=395495#395495]this thread[/url]. I'm attaching a patch for the problem. I've submitted the patch to the MPlayer developers

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

http://blogs.sun.com/observatory/entry/compiling_mplayer_on_opensolaris Didn't have any problems using the steps in the link. Mplayer works great. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

That link gives instructions for building MPlayer-1.0rc2. The MPlayer download page describes that version as outdated, and recommends using a current Subversion snapshot, which is what the original poster was trying to do. If MPlayer-1.0rc2 is all you want, you might as well download the

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

The Blastwave install didn't work for me. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

I wonder why - it worked for me. I just didn't like their version because it doesn't have x264 encoding enabled. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

I also tried Blastwave's Xine installation and it didn't work either. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org ___ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

I also couldn't get my 23 inch lcd monitor to display correctly using opensolaris. When the monitor was connected to my laptop, the laptop wouldn't even boot! When running I could connect the monitor and using xrandr it would recognize it, but couldn't get the screen resolution right.

Re: [osol-help] Building MPlayer

For the record, MPlayer works fine under OpenSolaris on my desktop machine with my new 23 inch monitor, with absolutely no configuration required. I've never been inclined to run osol on laptops though, because I think that's overkill, but mostly because I want suspend and hibernation to work.