I was trying to make mplayer play wmv video on my amd64 and found the interesting topic on ubuntuforums: http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=140565&page=3. It has some instruction how to patch the ubuntu package and has a patch attached as well (the original author of the patch is jserv).

So, here’s a quick guide how to patch your mplayer port:

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About a year ago I wrote a patch which makes it possible to add ‘descriptions’ for network interfaces. You can read the details in kern/83622. Today I’ve updated the patch and submitted follow-up to PR. It’s sad that nothing moved towards committing it. Although this feature is very useful for me. On one of [...]

I’ve been hacking on ipfw for last two days. I wanted to be able to set tos and dscp for packets matching rules and catch packets by dscp as well (it’s possible to catch packets by ToS value in ipfw already). I found a patch which did this for freebsd 5.x, though I had to [...]