ppc64 media player

[Nathan Whitehorn]

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