[MPlayer-users] FYI, mplayer with Fedora 8

[Jack Smith]

On Jan 14, 2008 8:45 AM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski
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>
> > 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.
>

I don't remember doing that, but maybe it was a question during the install.


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> > > > 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.
>

Possible.  I let Add/Remove check out the dependancies and that might not
have been an official dependancy.  Probably wouldn't be.
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Jack Smith

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