Watching movies on solaris 10?

Question

Does anyone know of an easy to install program that will allow me to watch movies on a solaris 10 operating system?
I've heard of MPplayer but I'm not sure which file to download.

Answer 1

We do have a bunch of video players for Solaris

http://www.solaris4you.dk/multimedia_projectsSS.html



Here's a page discussing mplayer for Solaris

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/DOCS/HTML/en/unix.html



Try compiling Mplayer on Solaris, add codecs.

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

There are no pre-compiled packages for Solaris.

But, I'm pretty sure it can be done as I've seen this player

on some Solaris machines.



Also, try VLC from here

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Answer 2

im sure solaris supports rpm files, so go with one of them...they are quite simple to install

Answer 3

I think an easy way to do this would be to install VLC Player as it includes a whole host of codecs http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/download-of-the-day-vlc-media-player.html



LUg.