[MPlayer-users] mplayerplug-in QT

[Kalin Mintchev]

ok... in the mean time "something" happaned and i can't see the WM
straeams anymore and the plugin-in wont play the downloadable QT files
either. i haven't done anything - not one modificatopn to this machine..

it's a freeBSD not Net or Open....

what's next?


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, rcooley wrote:

> [Automatic answer: RTFM (read DOCS, FAQ), also read DOCS/bugreports.html]
> On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 01:31:56 -0500
> D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> wrote:
>
> > > One good reason everyone uses ports, is that many projects are
> > > linux-centric,
> >
> > Would you care to give examples?? Maybe this is the case for a few
> > programs with stupid authors, or which have a good reason for being
> > linux-centric (for instance a v4l-based tv app), but in general it's
> > not the case at all.
>
> It's far beyond a few examples.  Pick a category and I'll list a few
> thousand if you really want.
>
> > > and don't work under BSD without numerous patches (the
> > > ports system applies those patches).  Compiling from unmodified
> > > MPlayer sources is not really feasable.
> >
> > This is nonsense. MPlayer should compile fine out-of-the-box.
>
> On OpenBSD:  it doesn't now, and it never has.
>
> > If not, send a proper bugreport.
>
> It wouldn't be a bug report, it would be more like dozens of them, and
> since applying the patches to 0.90 is good enough for me, I don't have
> much motivation to go through all that.
>
> > Rich
>
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