"...I'm not a techie and dont know much about compiling and all..."
"...As I said, I'm not a techie and if I cant play video's there is not point in staying here..." Don't take this the wrong way, but why in the world are you running OpenSolaris then? For what it's worth, compiling mplayer worked for me. Without hand building some software, I don't think you'll be able to get the multimedia support you are requiring, especially since lifewithsolaris went offline. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org