[MPlayer-users] codec RPMs?

[Andre Robatino]

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
  The codec RPMs have disappeared from www1.