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

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On 18.04.2013 04:19, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote:
>> use rpmfusion and NOT atrpms
>> that's the same as for a physical install
> 
> Thanks, enabled RPMFUSION and it's now downloading a thousand deps
> (ok, 29 deps actually), and it'll use 55 MB of HD space.
> 
> I still think a static build of MPlayer would be great, but I see here
> building one is apparently not so easy:
> http://mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-users/2011-August/083170.html
> 
> (Ironically, on win32 there's plenty of static builds of ffmpeg, and I
> think I've seen Mplayer builds for Win32 delivered as a single huge
> file as well).
> 
> Oh well...
> 
> What is ironic is that if I google long enough, I'll surely find some
> wma player written in Java that I could run by just downloading a
> single .jar file and running it with OpenJDK... so much for the
> advantage of the 'linux way' of a thousand dependencies on system libs
> scattered throughout the system... ;)

What a hullabaloo you are. :)

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