On the "I think I should .." thread mention was made of MPlayer and how it was better for OpenSolaris than VLC (which I unsuccessfully tried to build). Anyway tried to build MPlayer
Running make I fail with gcc -DHAVE_AV_CONFIG_H -I.. -I.. -Wundef -Wdisabled-optimization -Wdeclaration-after-statement -std=gnu99 -Wall -Wno-switch -Wpointer-arith -Wredundant-decls -O4 -march=prescott -mtune=prescott -pipe -ffast-math -fomit-frame-pointer -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -Ilibdvdread4 -I. -I/usr/X11/include -I/usr/include/SDL -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/local/include -c -o x86/mlpdsp.o x86/mlpdsp.c {standard input}: Assembler messages: {standard input}:91: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1. {standard input}:96: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1. {standard input}:101: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1. {standard input}:106: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 1. {standard input}:123: Error: unbalanced parenthesis in operand 2. make[1]: *** [x86/mlpdsp.o] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/export/home/paulj/mplayer/libavcodec' make: *** [libavcodec/libavcodec.a] Error 2 This is using revision 29543 on a SunOS workdellgx260 5.11 snv_118 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris Anyone go any ideas? Regards Paul -- This message posted from opensolaris.org