Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 08:47:48 +0100 From: "Christian Walther" <cptsalek@gmail.com> To: "Alain G. Fabry" <alainfabry@belgacom.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: avi/wmv/qt player on FreeBSD Message-ID: <14989d6e0701172347u5441665ck75c645da3f917252@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070118065733.GA62082@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net> References: <20070118065733.GA62082@ducati-748.3rdrock.kicks-ass.net>
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Hi Alain, On 18/01/07, Alain G. Fabry <alainfabry@belgacom.net> wrote: > > I've been trying to install different multimedia players (avifile/xine/etc) via the port, > but they all fail on the win32-codecs dependency. Probably because of > the security issue. > > Which is an avi/wmv/qt player that can be installed and works? if you search the lists archive for win32-codecs you'll find many threads that deal with this issue. Simply reconfigure win32-codecs so that it doesn't use Quicktime, and you're done. If you need/want Quicktime nonetheless, there should be an explanation of how to change the ports makefile to not check for this security issue. HTH Christian
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