had no success with mplayer yet because of lacking mmx support. got ffmpeg to compile (without mmx/sse) and play on linuxemu, but it was too slow on my 1 ghz via machine.
-- cinap
--- Begin Message ---On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:05:13 +0100 Lorenzo Bolla <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > I've just installed (with few difficulties, I must admit) a fresh Plan9 on > my Dell Inspiron laptop. > I played with it and I'd really like to study it and get used to it. > Ideally, I would like to make it my "everyday OS", to do all the nice stuff > you can do with a computer (a part from work and study), like browsing the > web, watching movies and so on... > Is anyone using it for such things? > Is there, for example, a decent browser for Plan9 (I haven't found any)? > Or a music/movie player? There is no "decent" browser for Plan 9 as such by many peoples' standards. The big problem here is that the Plan 9 community by and large really appreciates sane design, and it seems to be quite impossible to write a browser conforming to w3c standards without putting a lot of very very crazy code in it. *Howevah* there is Linuxemu. You can run Firefox under Linuxemu in Plan 9. You may be able to run mplayer or xine-whatever that way too, but some of Plan 9's display drivers may be too slow, you'd have to try it and see. Linuxemu is in rsc's contrib... 9fs sources && cd /n/sources/contrib/rsc/linuxemu ... then I guess cat README & go from there. I couldn't tell you how to install it since I've never done it. What works for me is rather the other way around. I run Linux (64bit, for a machine with 4GB of RAM), and run Plan 9 in Qemu. It works nicely, although it was a bit of hassle setting up. Some people do this & use the plumber to communicate with the plan9port plumber running on the Linux side, it all sounds a lot of fun but I haven't got that far yet. :) Have fun with it, anyhow. :) -- Ethan Grammatikidis Those who are slower at parsing information must necessarily be faster at problem-solving.
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