From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 24 19:54:43 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2826A106568D for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:54:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00F258FC14 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:54:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dannyman@toldme.com) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id r27so1912385ele.13 for ; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:54:37 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.90.31.4 with SMTP id e4mr2366357age.9.1235503279064; Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:21:19 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:21:18 -0800 Message-ID: <2a5241e00902241121o44ee2a17n3df05fcedd25693d@mail.gmail.com> From: Daniel Howard To: Mehul Ved Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Command line video player X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 19:54:49 -0000 On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Mehul Ved wrote: > 2) I am not able to find mplayer for 5.5 so I tried to get it's > package from 5-RELEASE, which lists lots of dependancies. How do I get > mplayer package for 5.5 Hello, Try the ports collection and see if it can build that way. mplayer imho is the very best choice here and yeah, you may have to experiment with options like --hardframedrop and the like: RTFM. :) More information on the ports collection here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/ports-using.html Ports is a system to download and compile software on your system, so it tends to be more useful for older versions of FreeBSD for which package support has been dropped. If ports can get you running then yeah upgrading the machine would be a good call. Sincerely, -daniel -- http://dannyman.toldme.com