mplayer vs. xine

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Sat Jan 31 15:41:50 UTC 2004


On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:51:31 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Michael (and the rpm.livna.org maintainer), please see my brand-new HOWTO
> on this topic:
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> I found I had to add freshrpms in order to get apt.

No, no. You've got it wrong. Please read the main page of
http://rpm.livna.org/ -- the repository depends on the fedora.us
repository. You get apt there, and quite some apt-rpm development
takes places there.

> I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there
> are things it lacks.  If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for
> everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which
> is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it
> needs to carry the following:
> 
> Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> mame and mame ROM RPMs
> RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer

Yes. It's a problem of lack of human resources.

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