[indiana-discuss] How good will Indiana be for desktop computing?

[Dennis Clarke]

> Mark Phalan wrote:
>> If you're still looking for a good solution for multi-media on
>> OpenSolaris I've found that the the easiest path is to simply compile
>> the ffmpeg plugin for gstreamer:
>>
>> Get it here:
>> http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/src/gst-ffmpeg/gst-ffmpeg-0.10.3.tar.bz2
>>
>> It compiles out of the box (on Nevada) with gcc but has problems
>> linking, I had to use the GNU linker to get it to link. Apart from the
>> linking issue it's trivial to get going.
>>
>> Once you've built it just stick the plugin (libgstffmpeg.so)
>> into /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.10.
>>
>> The advantage of doing this over compiling mplayer/vlc is that this
>> enables all the gnome apps to be able to play pretty much any video
>> format. You can use totem, the nautilus thumbnailer works etc.
>>
>
> Interesting you mention totem. On OpenSolaris, totem can't play anything
> as far as I can tell. I presume it's been built with no codecs at all,
> and I wonder why we bother to supply it. On the other hand, totem
> downloaded from blastwave can play lots of formats, and if you add
> Windows media player DLLs to it from your own copy of Windows, it can
> use those to play most of the windows format files too. We should be
> shipping such a working build of totem with OpenSolaris (and hence
> Indiana too).

It will be made available ... from Blastwave and via IPS.  Some effort and
work is required but fret not good friend because there are good things
happening. Community built software should and will be available ... with a
whack of work.  The issue at the moment is the IPS conversion as well as a
few nits like post-install scripts etc etc.

Dennis Clarke