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Old 11th October 2016
joseyluis joseyluis is offline
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the file formats mplayer are/can be patented in some countries, and its legal status is uncertain in several countries. Because of this, mplayer packages aren't build.

From the source of pkgsrc :
file: ...multimedia/mplayer-share/Makefile.common
RESTRICTED= Prohibited by USAs DMCA and patent law
NO_BIN_ON_CDROM= ${RESTRICTED}
NO_BIN_ON_FTP= ${RESTRICTED}
NO_SRC_ON_FTP= ${RESTRICTED}
......

You can build mplayer and other related mplayer packages building yourself from pkgsrc: http://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/stable/pkgsrc.tar.bz2

Uncompress it under /usr.

# cd /usr/pkgsrc/multimedia/mplayer
# make install
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