Just curious, what do you mean by "root holes" in mplayer? Do you mean that if I have a Solaris sytem and I allow all the users on it to watch videos using mplayer on it that those users can use some kind of setuid / buffer overflow sorcery to escalate their priveleges to root user and take over my computer? I guess that problem could be easily solved on your home laptop or desktop by using the chown and chmod commands to make sure that only your personal user account is allowed to run and tamper with the mplayer files, but why bother?
Honestly, I don't get what is supposed to be so great about mplayer and totem. In my extremely limited experience, I think VLC media player is a far superior alternative. I have been using all three on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 box and VLC is really kicking media player's butt IMO when it comes to playing just about everything I want it to without even requiring me to install a million different plug-ins or codecs. Plus VLC has a superior modular design (that mplayer doesn't have) which makes it easy to run VLC on Windows as well as on just about any other operating system or hardware platform. VLC runs well on OpenBSD, Gentoo, Slackware, Solaris, openSUSE, FreeBSD, Ubuntu, BeOS, QNX, Syllable, Mac OS X, Mandriva, Red Hat / Fedora, Arch Linux, just about any OS you can think of, VLC probably runs well on it (wouldn't be surprised if AIX and OpenVMS ports of the VLC player are in progress as I write this). Just 'cause the GNU guys are pushing this mplayer b.s. doesn't mean it's automatically a superior end product to everything else, does it? Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlc_media_player http://www.videolan.org/vlc/ So far it's played everything I've tried to play on it, including .wmv Windows Media player videos, Real Player videos, QuickTime, .AVI, and all the codecs seem to already be there too! It also played some videos I had that were damaged or that I hadn't finished downloading yet. Any chance we'll ever get VLC media player in the official IPS package repository? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
