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AUDIO_ENCODING_LINEAR8 format is not available on sunos 5.5. Format is unsupported in mplayer for now, to get the code compiled on that old version of the OS.

Notes for Solaris users
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1. AVI file playback works best on Solaris x86, because you have the
   option to use the win32 codecs on the x86 platform.  On Solaris SPARC,
   you'll find quite a few AVI files with non working video and/or
   audio playback, because the video/audio codecs using the win32 DLLs
   are not available.


2. To build the package you will need GNU make (gmake, /opt/sfw/gmake), 
   native Solaris make will not work.

   Typical error you get when building with solaris' make instead of GNU
   make:

   % /usr/ccs/bin/make
   make: Fatal error in reader: Makefile, line 25: Unexpected end of line seen


3. On Solaris SPARC, you need the GNU C/C++ Compiler; it does not matter
   if GNU C/C++ compiler is configured with or without the GNU assembler.

   On Solaris x86, you need the GNU assembler and the GNU C/C++
   compiler, configured to use the GNU assembler!  The mplayer code on
   the x86 platform makes heavy use of MMX, SSE and 3DNOW!
   instructions that cannot be compiled using Sun's assembler
   /usr/ccs/bin/as.


   The configure script tries to find out, which assembler program is
   used by your "gcc" command (in case the autodetection fails, use
   the "--as=/whereever/you/have/installed/gnu-as" option to tell the
   configure script where it can find GNU "as" on your system).

   Error message from configure on a Solaris x86 system using GCC
   without GNU assembler:

     % configure
     ...
     Checking assembler (/usr/ccs/bin/as) ... , failed
     Please upgrade(downgrade) binutils to 2.10.1...

   (Solution: Install and use a gcc configured with "--with-as=gas")


   Typical error you get when building with a GNU C compiler that does
   not use GNU as:

     % gmake
     ...
     gcc -c -Iloader -Ilibvo -O4 -march=i686 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -ffast-math 
	   -fomit-frame-pointer  -I/usr/local/include   -o mplayer.o mplayer.c
     Assembler: mplayer.c
     "<stdin>", line 3567 : Illegal mnemonic
     "<stdin>", line 3567 : Syntax error
     ... more "Illegal mnemonic" and "Syntax error" errors ...


4. For DVD support you must have the patched libcss installed. Patch:
   http://www.tools.de/solaris/mplayer/


5. Due to two bugs in solaris 8 x86,  you cannot reliably play DVDs using a
   capacity >4GB: 

   - The sd(7D) driver on solaris 8 x86 driver has bug when accessing a
     disk block >4GB on a device using a logical blocksize != DEV_BSIZE
     (i.e. CDROM and DVD media).  Due to a 32bit int overflow, a disk
     address modulo 4GB is accessed.
     (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22516)

   - The similar bug is present in the hsfs(7FS) filesystem code (aka
     ISO9660), hsfs currently does not support partitions/disks >4GB,
     all data is accessed modulo 4GB
     (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/solarisonintel/message/22592)

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Jürgen Keil