[MPlayer-users] mplayer on Solaris x86

[Sascha Sommer]

On Saturday 25 June 2005 21:51, apostolo at obelix.ee.duth.gr wrote:
>    Hello,
>
>    First of all I need to publicly express my gratitute to those people
> who work really hard to keep alive this excellent piece of software.
> Although, one can fairly easily compile mplayer on Solaris x86, still
> there are a number of really annoying issue which I decided to put
> forth so maybe someone can try to find a solution to them.
>
> 1) No matter what I cannot play VCD's on Solaris. I tried to play
>     VCDs with volume management on or off, but without any success.
>
> 2) With version 1.0pre5try2-3.4.2 I can play almost all QuickTime
>     videos, but with 1.0pre6-3.4.2 or newer I can play the same
>     videos but some of them have no sound. A typical example is
>     the Star Wars trailers.
>
> 3) Mplayer 1.0pre6-3.4.2 has no problem to play a theora video with
>     ogg sound, but 1.0pre7-3.4.2 fails miserably to play the same video!
>
> 4) I have compiler 1.0pre7-3.4.2 with dirac support but it couldn't
>     play such videos.
>
>    If someone has managed to find a solution to these problems, I would
> really like to know his/her solution.
>

Try again with cvs then send at least the mplayer -v output when it is failing 
otherwise fixing things is almost impossible.

Sascha