mplayer vs. xine

[Tom Diehl]

On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Julien Olivier <julo at altern.org>:
> > > Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> > > mame and mame ROM RPMs
> > 
> > XMame is totally free and legal, isn't it ? Mame ROMS are illegal
> > though, and not only in the US (this is not a software patent problem).
> 
> Fedora, and other repos, often won't carry xmame, apparently because
> of some sort of guilt by association.
>  
> > > RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> > > Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer
> > 
> > How about Flash plugin and libdvdcss ?
> 
> I think libdcvss is already in livna's xine set.  Carrying
> flash-plugin would be a good idea, though.

The flash stuff is available @ 

[macromedia]
name=Macromedia flash
baseurl=http://macromedia.mplug.org/apt/fedora/1/

The rpms there "just work"

Tom