vlc has no GUI

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Wed Nov 7 21:20:22 UTC 2012


Carroll Grigsby <cgrigs986 at att.net> writes:

> On Wed, 07 Nov 2012 15:11:06 +0100
> lee <lee at yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
>
>> Hiisi <hiisi at fedoraproject.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On 7 November 2012 16:41, Michael Hiller <sojasau at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> I was assuming that.
>> >>
>> >
>> > Nobody should be advised to install third party software without
>> > warnings that it can be harmful and leads to dreadful things.
>> 
>> "yum install vlc" fixed it, thank you!  I thought I had already done
>> that ...
>> 
>> What's the alternative to installing 3rd party software?  Get its
>> sources and compile and install it ourselves?  I wouldn't mind doing
>> that if I knew how to make packages so that it's easier to keep track
>> of it ...
>> 
>> 
> Take a look here:
> http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f17.html
>
> As the old saying goes, it works for me. Quite well.

That involves installing gstreamer-plugins-bad-nonfree:  Isn't that 3rd
party software?


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