[MPlayer-users] codec RPMs?

[Andre Robatino]

Andre Robatino wrote:
> 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 sources are far out of date.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.
  The codec RPMs are now on all the servers, I downloaded them and they 
work fine.  Could you put links to them on the mplayerhq.hu home page 
when you get a chance (right now there are only links to the tarballs)?  
Thanks.