[MPlayer-users] codec RPMs?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 16 December 2006 at 13:30, Andre Robatino wrote:
> Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> >On Saturday, 16 December 2006 at 13:01, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski 
> >wrote:
> >  
> >>On Saturday, 16 December 2006 at 05:03, Andre Robatino wrote:
> >>    
> >>> I noticed today that on the MPlayer home page, the link for RPM 
> >>>packages now points to Livna.org.  Most people have probably been 
> >>>getting their MPlayer packages from other repositories like Livna and 
> >>>Freshrpms.  However, these don't provide codec RPMs, probably due to 
> >>>legal fears.  The danger to mplayerhq.hu for providing codec RPMs 
> >>>shouldn't be any greater than providing tarballs.  And many of the codec 
> >>>RPMs already available out there from other sources are far out of 
> >>>date.  Also, for newbies, the process of unpacking a codec tarball and 
> >>>putting the files in the right directory is difficult.  Would it be 
> >>>possible to provide just codec RPMs?
> >>>      
> >>Sure. These should be distro-agnostic.
> >>    
> >
> >Uploaded to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/
> >Use www1 until the other mirrors sync up.
> >
> >Regards,
> >R.
> >
> >  
>  That was fast, thanks!  The files are visible at www1, but I'm getting 
> error 403 when trying to download either file:
> 
> [andre at localhost mplayer]$ wget 
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
> --07:27:21--  
> http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
> Resolving www1.mplayerhq.hu... 213.144.138.186
> Connecting to www1.mplayerhq.hu|213.144.138.186|:80... connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 403 Forbidden
> 07:27:21 ERROR 403: Forbidden.

Looks like I can't fix permissions myself. We'll have to wait for
an admin to do that.

Regards,
R.

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