[OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

[Bryan Iotti]

+1 on mplayer. VLC used to work, now MPlayer does a great job on all my
multimedia formats.

Bryan


On Sun, Nov 4, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Jim Klimov <jimklimov at cos.ru> wrote:

> On 2012-11-04 09:27, Milan Jurik wrote:
>
>> it would be good to say which packages you installed.
>>
>
> I'll try to make a list when I'm next booted into OI, but in general
> I just clicked on everything that looked like a codec or player ;)
>
> One frequent error response in particular is that no H.264 codec is
> available, while the "x264" package is installed. I guess that some
> path to the library should be registered in some config file or some
> bunch of symlinks, so that a player "sees" that - and maybe that was
> not updated by the package installer?
>
>
> > Yes, vlc is broken
>
>> in SFE encumbered because there is no stable spec for it and the old one
>> pushed to the repo is broken on newer systems.
>>
>> I use mplayer from SFE encumbered without issues. That is the one I care
>>
>
> Ok, "works for you" is a good data point that I can try to pursue ;)
>
>
>
>
>  about, the rest depends on own maintainers (mplayer2 and vlc). After
>> finishing JDS/Gnome updated in OI I publish more gstreamer plugins so
>> totem will be able to play more things.
>>
>
> Thanks for info,
> //Jim Klimov
>
>
>
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