F18 livecd can't play wma files, and no mplayer

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Thu Apr 18 19:53:36 UTC 2013



Am 18.04.2013 21:48, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
> Yes, I know Rick. I've found the hard way that Fedora's media players,
> as shipped with the OS, are basically useless for playing any media
> you find on the Net, no mp3 playback, no wma audio playback, can't
> even play back *.mp4 (MPEG 4 layer 10, aka H.264) files downloaded
> from Youtube via keepvid.com...

so what

> And common media players like MPlayer or VLC do not come in
> 'statically linked' versions that one can just download as a single
> file and run, while booted off a LiveCD...

nobody wnat's static linked binaries where security updates
at the libs are not affecting the still vulnerable binary

> (yes, one can 'yum install
> mplayer' but it's painfully slow and the app is obviously gone at the
> next reboot)

so what - get a usb-stick and make a bootable live-stick
with persistent storage - works since many years

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