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Expand and update the Solaris and AIX sections. patch by "Derek E. Lewis" dlewis**at**solnetworks**dot**net

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on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
<ulink url="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html"><systemitem class="library">mLib</systemitem></ulink>
installed.
</para>

<para>
To build the package you will need GNU <application>make</application>
(<filename>gmake</filename>, <filename>/opt/sfw/gmake</filename>), native
Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with
Solaris' make instead of GNU make:

fails, use the <option>--as=<replaceable>/wherever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</replaceable></option>
option to tell the <filename>configure</filename> script where it can find GNU
"as" on your system).
</para>

<para>
Error message from <filename>configure</filename> on a Solaris x86 system using
GCC without GNU assembler:
<screen>
   % configure
   ...

   "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
   "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
   ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
</screen>
</para>

<para>
Due to bugs in Solaris 8, you may not be able to play DVD discs larger than 4 GB:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>

hsfs may not not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data is
accessed modulo 4GB
(<ulink url="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592"/>).
The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing patch 109764-04 (sparc) / 109765-04 (x86).
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="irix">
<title>IRIX</title>

The following architectures have been tested:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>604e</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER4</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
The following architectures are untested, but should still work:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>POWER</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER5</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Sound via the Ultimedia Services is not supported, as Ultimedia was
dropped in AIX 5.1; therefore, the only option is to use the AIX Open
Sound System (OSS) drivers from 4Front Technologies at <ulink
url="http://www.opensound.com/aix.html">http://www.opensound.com/aix.html</ulink>.
4Front Technologies freely provides the OSS drivers for personal and
non-commercial usage.
</para>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="windows">

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on a 400MHz CPU. You'll need
<ulink url="http://www.sun.com/sparc/vis/mediaLib.html"><systemitem class="library">mLib</systemitem></ulink>
installed.
</para>

<para><emphasis role="bold">Caveat:</emphasis></para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para><emphasis role="bold">mediaLib</emphasis> is
<emphasis role="bold">currently disabled</emphasis> by default in
<application>MPlayer</application> because of brokenness. SPARC users
who build MPlayer with mediaLib support have reported a thick,
green-tint on video encoded and decoded with libavcodec. You may enable
it if you wish with:
<screen>
$ ./configure --enable-mlib
</screen>
You do this at your own risk. x86 users should
<emphasis role="bold">never</emphasis> use mediaLib, as this will
result in very poor MPlayer performance.
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
To build the package you will need GNU <application>make</application>
(<filename>gmake</filename>, <filename>/opt/sfw/gmake</filename>), native
Solaris make will not work. Typical error you get when building with
Solaris' make instead of GNU make:

fails, use the <option>--as=<replaceable>/wherever/you/have/installed/gnu-as</replaceable></option>
option to tell the <filename>configure</filename> script where it can find GNU
"as" on your system).
</para>

<para>Solutions to common problems:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>
Error message from <filename>configure</filename> on a Solaris x86 system using
GCC without GNU assembler:
<screen>
   % configure
   ...

   "(stdin)", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
   "(stdin)", line 3567 : Syntax error
   ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...
</screen>
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para><application>MPlayer</application> may segfault when decoding
and encoding video that uses the win32codecs:
<screen>
...
Trying to force audio codec driver family acm...
Opening audio decoder: [acm] Win32/ACM decoders
sysi86(SI86DSCR): Invalid argument
Couldn't install fs segment, expect segfault


MPlayer interrupted by signal 11 in module: init_audio_codec
...
</screen>
This is because of a change to sysi86() in Solaris 10 and pre-Solaris
Nevada b31 releases. This has been fixed in Solaris Nevada b32;
however, Sun has yet to backport the fix to Solaris 10. The MPlayer
Project has made Sun aware of the problem and a patch is currently in
progress for Solaris 10. More information about this bug can be found
at:
<ulink
url="http://bugs.opensolaris.org/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6308413"/>.
</para>
</listitem>

<listitem><para>
Due to bugs in Solaris 8, you may not be able to play DVD discs larger than 4 GB:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>

hsfs may not not support partitions/disks larger than 4GB, all data is
accessed modulo 4GB
(<ulink url="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592"/>).
The hsfs problem can be fixed by installing patch 109764-04 (sparc) / 109765-04 (x86).
</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>

<sect2 id="irix">
<title>IRIX</title>

The following architectures have been tested:
</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>604e</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER3</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER4</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
The following architectures are untested, but should still work:
</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>POWER</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER2</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>POWER5</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist>

<para>
Sound via the Ultimedia Services is not supported, as Ultimedia was
dropped in AIX 5.1; therefore, the only option is to use the AIX Open
Sound System (OSS) drivers from 4Front Technologies at <ulink
url="http://www.opensound.com/aix.html">http://www.opensound.com/aix.html
</ulink>.
4Front Technologies freely provides OSS drivers for AIX 5.1 for
non-commercial use; however, there are currently no sound output
drivers for AIX 5.2 or 5.3. This means <emphasis role="bold">AIX 5.2
and 5.3 are not capable of MPlayer audio output, presently.</emphasis>
</para>

<para>Solutions to common problems:</para>

<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>
If you encounter this error message from <filename>configure</filename>:
<screen>
$ ./configure
...
Checking for iconv program ... no
No working iconv program found, use
--charset=US-ASCII to continue anyway.
Messages in the GTK-2 interface will be broken then.
</screen>
This is because AIX uses non-standard character set names; therefore,
converting MPlayer output to another character set is currently not
supported. The solution is to use:
<screen>
$ ./configure --charset=noconv
</screen>
</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>

</sect2>
</sect1>

<sect1 id="windows">