mplayer vs. xine

[Eric S. Raymond]

Michael Schwendt <ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de>:
> On Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:51:31 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> > Michael (and the rpm.livna.org maintainer), please see my brand-new HOWTO
> > on this topic:
> > 
> > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html
> > 
> > I found I had to add freshrpms in order to get apt.
> 
> No, no. You've got it wrong. Please read the main page of
> http://rpm.livna.org/ -- the repository depends on the fedora.us
> repository. You get apt there, and quite some apt-rpm development
> takes places there.

Ahh, I see what happened.  I originally had only the Fedora Core repository
in my configuration, not realizing that fedora.us has stuff like apt in it
that core doesn't.  OK, fixed.
 
> > I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there
> > are things it lacks.  If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for
> > everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which
> > is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it
> > needs to carry the following:
> > 
> > Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> > mame and mame ROM RPMs
> > RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> > Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer
> 
> Yes. It's a problem of lack of human resources.

Can I help?  If it's just a problem of rounding up RPMs and dropping them
in the repository, I can do that.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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