[MPlayer-users] MPlayer on Solaris (Nevada, nv70) does not play VCD, DVD - iconv problem ?

[Nico Sabbi]

Il Tuesday 16 October 2007 08:03:37 Rich Felker ha scritto:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:48:28PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> > Got my MPlayer from http://www.blastwave.org/
> > It plays local files pretty well (as far as I can make out by
> > now), but somehow fails to play vcd, dvd.
> > Firstly, I googled for the UTF-8 to 646 conversion, but didn't
> > find any good hint.
>
> Looks like Solaris's iconv implementation does not match the
> system's (horribly broken) locale charset names. But this is
> probably unrelated to the crash, as it will happen if you try to
> play files too. It sounds like you haven't used mplayer at all on
> this machine before so you should probably try playing various
> other content and see if you run into the same problem. If you care
> to fix the iconv problem I might have some ideas...
>
> Rich

and a gdb backtrace is in any case necessary to understand what's
wrong with your setup