Ranter or evangelist?

[Shannon McMackin]

On 07/17/2009 12:33 AM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>> On 07/16/2009 10:40 PM, gilpel at altern.org wrote:
>
>> What you're missing is that the codecs are required for the player to
>> load and play the media.  The codecs are not required to read the
>> contents of the CD.
>
> I see. You're teaching me a lot here. I always thought that, when you
> install the mplayer codecs, it was really to play Windows Media and,
> maybe, some more video codecs. Now you tell me it's only to load the
> media. Interesting.
>
>> A wonderful 3rd party repo is rpmfusion.org.
>
> Well, I've been through the fedorafaq site and I do believe I installed
> therpmfusion repository. I didn't collect the mplayer codecs on mplayer's
> site :)
>
>> They provide many
>> wonderful tools and options to make your desktop linux experience much
>> more enjoyable...
>
> It's just too bad that you stop short of telling me which codecs "required
> to load and play the media".
>
> I'm very quick on the yum install command and since I have the rpmfusion
> repository installed, it will be my pleasure to install all that's
> needed... when I wake up tomorrow :)
>
>
>
Here's a better "guide" for you to follow...

http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php?title=Main_Page