Solaris Multimedia

I finally managed to get MPlayer compiled and packaged. Although I rarely use MPlayer (Totem is my preference) a lot of people are big fans. A special thanks to Bruno Schmitt for some very helpful hints.

Although I encourage everyone to purchase the Fluendo GStreamer Playback Plugins if you can, I've made the free GStreamer ASF Plugin available from my ips repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906.

It appears that having the GStreamer FFMPEG plugin isn't enough to play ASF files without the Fluendo pack. With both FFMPEG and ASF plugins installed you can. The FFMPEG plugin will take care of the WMA and WMV audio and video streams found in most ASF files.

The GStreamer plugins required for DVD video playback have been available on my old repository for quite a while. I've recompiled the plugins with OpenSolaris 2009.06 and have been testing them for a few weeks. Until recently I was having problems getting the DVD playback working properly. "WhatsWrongWithThis" mentioned some compatibility issues between the free GStreamer DVD plugins and the Fluendo GStreamer Playback Plugins. I investigated and I think I have overcome the problem. The plugins have now been added to my new repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906. Read below for installation instructions and more detail about the compatibility issue with one of the Fluendo libraries.

ASF

DVD Video

FFMPEG & FLV

MP3

The GStreamer FFMPEG and FLV Plugins are available from my repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906.

You will need to install MBLgst-plugin-flv and MBLgst-plugin-ffmpeg to play most flash video files.

The Free GStreamer MP3 Plugins are now available from my repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906. These plugins can be used to play and encode MP3 files. The plugins required for ID3 Tag manipulation are also provided.

Although I have packaged MBLgst-plugin-mad for playing MP3 files, I would highly recommend you use the Fluendo MP3 GStreamer Plugin. Better still, the complete set of Fluendo GStreamer Plugins are fantastic.

I've added EasyTAG 2.1 to my repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906.

I've been using it for quite a while and it works well.

If you have any problems with it send me an email (mblakeman@netspace.net.au) or leave me a comment.

Enjoy

My current multimedia repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10000 is still available but there are some issues with the ffmpeg and gstreamer ffmpeg packages in relation to libx264.

I've setup a new repository at http://ips.homeunix.com:10906. Currently I have only made ffmpeg and the gstreamer a52dec plugin available. I'll be adding more over the coming weeks.

The ffmpeg in this repository works perfectly with libx264.

Rhythmbox

One of the must have applications for any computer system is an mp3 player. I have compiled and packaged the dependencies for Rhythmbox. I've packaged up the lame and mad gstreamer 0.8.x plugins to provide mp3 support for the gstreamer multimedia framework that ships with Solaris 10. Other dependencies are included below.