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Old 08-05-2008
needed help in finding a suitable video player!

Hi all,
I had been using kde 3.5.8 for a while on solaris but the problem was that i was not able to use Gnome for some strange reasons...
It constantly used to misbehave.
(Whether it was cde-login or gdm)
So i had to remove kde completely and now am left with no video or audio players .
So i would request anyone to please point me out to a working video player on solaris. Also a suitable audio player!

Thanks
# 2  
Old 08-05-2008
mplayer is pretty good IMO.
Works with most solaris video drivers to give pretty reasonable hardware acceleration and it is smart enough to use windows DLLs so you can even play quicktime and realmedia files.
# 3  
Old 08-06-2008
This will do the job a well
Windows Media Player 6.3
# 4  
Old 08-06-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by wrapster
...So i would request anyone to please point me out to a working video player on solaris...
Quote:
Originally Posted by incredible
...Windows Media Player 6.3
Either something very cool is happening with media player or there's a joke here that I don't understand...

BTW, I forgot to add earlier that mplayer will also do audio fairly well but xmms is a very nice audio player with very winamp-like X11 frontends available.
# 5  
Old 08-06-2008
try:
CSW packaging home
and install pkg-get... with that you can install vlc (video lan client). you can compile it of course on your own... VideoLAN - Free and Open Source software and video streaming solutions for every OS! but it's maybe easier to use "pkg-get".

hth,
DN2
# 6  
Old 08-07-2008
If Im joking, then what's this? I know about mplayer too Smilie
Windows Media Player - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
# 7  
Old 08-07-2008
Quote:
Originally Posted by incredible
If Im joking, then what's this? I know about mplayer too Smilie
Windows Media Player - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You recommended a player that's been defunct for 8 years, and that frankly was horrible, and only played WMVs..

DukeNuke2 has it right.. videolan is the best thing around, but personally, I found the CSW version (8.0.6) buggy. I'd go the compilation route.
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