[MPlayer-users] FYI, mplayer with Fedora 8
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
dominik at rangers.eu.org
Mon Jan 14 14:45:08 CET 2008
On Monday, 14 January 2008 at 14:35, Jack Smith wrote:
> On Jan 14, 2008 6:03 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski <
> dominik at rangers.eu.org> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, 14 January 2008 at 01:53, Jack Smith wrote:
> > > Just thought I'd let everyone know, the mplayer that comes packaged with
> > > Fedora 8 is incomplete.
> >
> > MPlayer doesn't come with Fedora. Do you mean the package which is
> > available in the rpm.livna.org repository?
>
> Well, I went into the Add/Remove software and it was there. This was after
> a complete re-install of Fedora.
That's impossible unless you manually added the livna repo to your yum
configuration. Fedora doesn't have MPlayer in its official repositories.
> > > Probably codecs or plug-ins, but it won't play DVDs.
> >
> > It works just fine here. What exactly was the problem?
>
> Giant flashing pixels and choppy sound when playing DVDs. Worked perfectly
> with AVIs and MKVs.
Most probably you didn't install libdvdcss then.
Regards,
R.
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