[OpenIndiana-discuss] Playing video

[russell]

Hi,

I had been using OpenCSW repository for their build of VLC which became 
broken after updating the 2015 hipster release. VLC would play audio but 
not video.
The ffmpeg which was installed as a dependancy for VLC was broken, so 
that I was unable to use Serviio any more to provide DNLA access for my 
networked tv.

After removing all the packages from the opencsw repository, I finally 
got round to building ffmpeg myself.
I downloaded ffmpeg-2.5.4, ran configure with

$ CC=gcc ./configure --prefix=/opt/gnu --disable-static --enable-shared
$ gmake
# gmake install


$ /opt/gnu/bin/ffmpeg -h
ffmpeg version 2.5.4 Copyright (c) 2000-2015 the FFmpeg developers
   built on Feb 25 2015 17:38:25 with gcc 4.8.3 (GCC)
   configuration: --prefix=/opt/gnu --disable-static --enable-shared
   libavutil      54. 15.100 / 54. 15.100
   libavcodec     56. 13.100 / 56. 13.100
   libavformat    56. 15.102 / 56. 15.102
   libavdevice    56.  3.100 / 56.  3.100
   libavfilter     5.  2.103 /  5.  2.103
   libswscale      3.  1.101 /  3.  1.101
   libswresample   1.  1.100 /  1.  1.100
Hyper fast Audio and Video encoder
usage: ffmpeg [options] [[infile options] -i infile]... {[outfile 
options] outfile}...

So now serviio is now working even better than before, files which 
Serviio reported as unplayable now work with the new build of ffmpeg.