DVD frustration - new observation

[Gene Heskett]

On Tuesday 13 March 2007, Anne Wilson wrote:
>On Monday 12 March 2007, Cameron Simpson wrote:
>> On 12Mar2007 09:36, Tom Horsley <tomhorsley at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> | On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:08:12 +0000
>> |
>> | Anne Wilson <cannewilson at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> | > Thinking about what you said, I realised that you may be testing
>> | > with commercially burned disks
>> |
>> | Actually, I tested both, but the home burned disk was burned on
>> | windows (sorry) not linux. Maybe the problem is with the burning
>> | software? (but they why would the burned disk work OK in a stand
>> | alone player?). Nope. Too confusing for me.
>>
>> Stand alone players are sometimes more forgiving of
>> not-totally-to-spec authoring. But you should still get something with
>> xine.
>>
>> Have you tried building xine from source (installing in /opt or
>> /usr/local for example)?
>
>No, I haven't.  I've never felt the need, as everything worked until
> recently. If the worst comes to the worst I could always try that.
>
>Anne

Pursuant to this thread, I was trying to make amorok work over the last 
few days, and it apparently uses the xine stuffs for codecs.  A friend of
mine has the xine-lib-extra-nonfree package installed which make amarok 
work fine for oggs.  His yum claims it came from livna. But on inspecting 
the whole visible livna site last night, non of that general category of 
stuff was available, so as far as I'm concerned, amarok, pretty as it is, 
is hosed if it cannot handle the ogg format.

So what has happened to livna, did they get a takedown notice?

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