mplayer one last time :(

[Vulpes Velox]

On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 16:26:19 -0400
"Monah Baki" <mbaki at whywire.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi, sorry for being ignorant, but I don't want to switch to another OS if
> freebsd can do the job.
> 
> Based on the advices I installed the following on Freebsd 5.1:
> 
> multimedia/openquicktime
> multimedia/mplayer
> www/mplayer-plugin
> www/mozilla (1.4)
> www/mplayer-fonts
> 
> Still can't get mplayer working. I have all the required ports installed based
> on what the freebsd.com/ports website said, I can't think of anything else,
> I'm completely lost here.

More info about the problem would be useful. Afaik openquicktime is not a useful
port. What you need is mplayer, the mplayer-plugin, and the win32 codecs.