whats with this love of kaffiene?

[Rex Dieter]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 23 April 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 23 April 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>> 2 or 3 weeks ago I had mplayer all setup to play just about anything I
>>>> clicked on in FF and in kmail.
>>>>
>>>> But something recently has shot that puppy dead and replaced it with
>>>> kaffiene. And since kaffiene doesn't seem to recognize most of the .wmv
>>>> etc proprietary format files that might get thrown at it, it winds up
>>>> being about as usefull as those small appendages on the belly of a boar
>>>> hog.
>>> If you have
>>> xine-lib-extras-nonfree (from livna)
>>> installed, it'll be closer in functionality to mplayer.
>> I don't have a livna available in smart-gui.  How can I enable that?
> 
> Besides that, just how DO you make xine do anything usefull???  It never has 
> yet other than play a video cd/dvd IF the disk was in the right format.

It does/will (for me it does anyway), provided you have libdvdcss installed.

-- Rex