[desktop-discuss] project proposal-- opensolaris needs a built in, working DVD player

[Ian Collins]

Patrick P Korsnick wrote:

>i've been evangelizing opensolaris to coworkers and friends for almost a year now and one phenomenon i've noticed is that for every nod and smile dtrace and zfs evoke in my audience i get one or two that point out how hard it is to do simple stuff like play a DVD.  i usually mention you can get ogle and mplayer from Blastwave, but that build of mplayer won't handle DVD menu's or DVD's that are split into multiple titles and that ogle build hasn't displayed video  (only sound) on any of the machines i've tried it on.  i've managed to get mplayer to build from source a few times, but it wasn't much better.  and don't even get me started on what a piece of s#!(&% totem is-- even on linux it's not worth the disk space it's stored on.
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The legal issues have already been mentioned, but I'll add that between
them, Blastwave oggle and mplayer cope with just about every format and
media out there.

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Ian