centralized site for FC2 multimedia?

[Nick]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

> On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Matthew Miller wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 05:35:16PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>>
>>>   so, any sites devoted to MM on FC2 that have legitimately
>>> useful and tested info?
>>
>>
>> The freshrpms site you mention has been very good to me.
>
>
> oh, i know about freshrpms and the other RPM sites for FC2.  it's not 
> the availability of RPMs that i think is the issue -- it's the 
> apparent lack of a centralized site for FC2 support that can get 
> frustrating sometimes.
>
> first, consider www.tldp.org, the linux doc project.  reasonably well 
> laid out, HOWTOs broken into convenient categories for fast searching, 
> but some of the stuff there is hideously out of date, making it fairly 
> useless for a lot of newer topics.  in short, the overall structure is 
> fairly good, but must of the content is obsolete from the fedora 
> perspective.
>
> then there's a number of fedora-related sites that have sprung up, 
> like fedoranews.org and fedorafaq.org.  fedoranews has lots of cool, 
> timely stuff, but its organization of articles is totally chaotic and, 
> in some cases, inappropriate -- some of the "fedora" articles have 
> nothing whatever to do with fedora.  so the content is, with some 
> exceptions, top notch, but the organization is missing entirely.
>
> fedorafaq.org is another fedora-related site that has some good stuff. 
> it's a little more organized -- has some definitely useful FAQs -- but 
> is obviously not complete, being a FAQ, which is fine in that respect.
> then there's fedoraforum.org, which also has good stuff, and of course 
> the fedora mailing list archives, and on and on.  lots of sites and 
> sources of information, all with their respective strengths and 
> weaknesses.  and, of course, the RPMs themselves are at yet other sites.
>
> it seems that what's missing is some centralized structure to all of 
> this.
> it would be handy to some kind of hierarchical umbrella over all this 
> scattered information, so people don't keep asking the same question, 
> like, "how can i mount my NTFS filesystem?"  the fact that questions 
> like this come up *repeatedly* is pretty solid evidence that something 
> is lacking.
>
> as one thought, while many people want to start fedora-related 
> information sites that are as comprehensive as possible, it might be 
> more useful for some of these people to focus more narrowly.  
> personally, i was interested in a multimedia-related site for FC2, but 
> i haven't found one.
> for the most part, if you ask the question, "how do i play DVDs on FC2?",
> what you typically get as an answer is "yum install xine", or 
> something like that.  very terse, and nothing to help you out if 
> something goes wrong.
>
> given that most of this information is out there *somewhere*, i think 
> it would be immensely useful to start an *organized* set of links to 
> URLs which explain this stuff, broken into categories like 
> www.tldp.org.  i can already see, let's say, a multimedia section:
>
> Multimedia
>   Sound configuration (OSS, ALSA)
>   MP3s
>   Playing DVDs
>   Digital video
>
> perhaps another section on, say, filesystems:
>
> Filesystems
>   Getting NTFS support
>   Working with encrypted filesystems
>   ...
>
> like i said, i know all this info is out there somewhere, but it's 
> just annoyingly hard to get to at times.  you need to go *here* for a 
> HOWTO, *there* for a user guide, *there* for the FAQ and *there* for 
> the actual RPM.  surely there's a better way to do this.
>
> rday
>
>
http://rpm.livna.org/ really good site for fedora addons including 
mulitmedia but its best used with apt-get.