mplayer vs. xine

[Tom Diehl]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Copied to the rpm.livna.org maintainer.
> 
> Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de>:
> > > [freshrpms]
> > > name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> > > baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms
> > > gpgcheck=1
> > > 
> > > will help with the xine dependencies
> > 
> > Not needed and not recommended. livna depends on fedora.us and Fedora
> > Core, nothing else.
> 
> 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.  I needed apt in order
> to get jre RPMs from Dag Wieers's repository.  

FWIW Dags repo is yum enabled. Something like below will work.
name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - dag
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc$releasever/en/$basearch/dag

Tom