Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-08 Thread Ian Johnson
I use mplayer2 for videos and mod/Sonata for music with no issue. On the subject of mplayer, though, I've noticed that mplayer2 throws some AO-ALSA errors as part of the command-line output when playing a video. Is it possible that the mplayer2 package was built with some extra features enabled

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-08 Thread 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 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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-04 Thread Jim Klimov
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

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-04 Thread Milan Jurik
Hi, it would be good to say which packages you installed. 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 about, the rest depends on

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-04 Thread Jacek 'Szumak' Kotlarski
W dniu 04.11.2012 08:52, Jim Klimov napisaƂ(a): Anyhow, are there any hoops to jump through beside installing the players and codecs, so that the former would know about the latter? I have old packages of codecs from Fluendo (for OpenSolaris), but you can try this site: http://ips.homeunix.com

[OpenIndiana-discuss] SFE multimedia players and codecs

2012-11-04 Thread Jim Klimov
I've tried to install some multimedia support to that OI laptop of mine, and while all the codec packages seem to have been selected and installed, the multitude of installed players refuse to play anything - from MP3's to movies. I was surprised to see even VLC refuse to do anything, though I pre