[NBLUG/talk] Mplayer and Fedora 8

Jack Smith jack.delbert at gmail.com
Sun Jan 13 13:51:15 PST 2008


On Jan 13, 2008 4:21 PM, Scott Doty <scott at ponzo.net> wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:09:11PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > On Jan 13, 2008 10:41 AM, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Has anyone tried to use the Mplayer that comes with Fedora 8 to play
> DVDs?
> > > I have and I'm failing miserably.  Looks like the picture is made up
> of
> > > multi-colored giant pixels.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Red Hat has been known to pull support for just about anything that
> > might have any sort of patent issues (there was a big deal about them
> > pulling support for MP3 audio a few years ago).  I don't know if
> > Fedora is the same way (probably is, since it was started by Red Hat),
> > but you could try downloading MPlayer from <http://www.mplayerhq.hu>
> > and see if it gives different results.
>
> mplayer actually comes from (or should come from) livna, which is where
> some
> of the, ahem, "questionably-licenced" software for Fedora resides...
>
>   http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
>
> Jack, assuming you've enabled the Livna repo, and you've done "yum install
> mplayer" and "yum install libdvdcss", it should just work out of the box.
> (Does for me...I'm using x86_64...)
>
> BTW, folks with other distros that can use SRPMS might be interested in
> browsing:  http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/SRPMS/ -- there's
> plenty of "extras" available in that repo that might come in handy...
>


Thanks, it does.  So long as I don't use the one that came with Fedora.  :-)

-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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