From owner-freebsd-ppc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 21 15:17:51 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24E66106564A for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:17:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4B88FC12 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:17:50 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LTF00J0895QY200@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu> for freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:17:50 -0500 (CDT) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-75-50-88-125.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [75.50.88.125]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LTF00J1395MWE00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:17:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:17:45 -0500 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <20111021151517.GA17192@vesper.psych0tik.net> To: richo Message-id: <4EA18D19.7080509@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=75.50.88.125 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-14, Version=5.6.1.2065439, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.10.21.150617, SenderIP=75.50.88.125 References: <20111021151517.GA17192@vesper.psych0tik.net> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110928 Thunderbird/7.0 Cc: freebsd-ppc Subject: Re: ppc64 media player X-BeenThere: freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the PowerPC List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:17:51 -0000 On 10/21/11 10:15, richo wrote: > I'm hoping to coax my imac into playing media files and DVDs > fullscreen under > X11 > > I've tried building vlc and mplayer, vlc bails during compilation and > mplayer > bails at configure time claiming the UNKNOWN architecture is unsupported. > > Is there a media player that is known to work on ppc64 (With Nathan's > help I > got ffmpeg to build and have verified that it works so I believe the > necessary backends should all be in place now) or should I start on > trying to > work out how to get mplayer working? What's the problem with VLC? It works perfectly mine for me. Are you using 10.0 or 9? There are some known problems with ports on 10.0 due to stupid autoconf bugs. -Nathan