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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There were a lot of discussion on FreeBSD ports tree last few month. For example, it has been noted there’re a lot of unmaintained ports (freebsd-ports@, mid cb5206420605220417o5a5d8667l648f42644f39d4e4@mail.gmail.com) and ports collection is very large (freebsd-ports@, 200605131511.57575.mistry.7@osu.edu). So, it looks like a number of ports grows much faster than a number of maintainers. I have a [...]