whats with this love of kaffiene?

[Rex Dieter]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 24 April 2007, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> 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.
>>
> It is, 1.2.9-4-lvn6-i386, has been all along.

Dunno, worksforme, though ymmv.

-- Rex