Re: DVD playback

["Bryan J. Smith" <b.j.smith@ieee.org>]

On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 21:33 -0500, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> If you add the freshrpms ... cut ...

Ack!  Yuck!  God no!  ;->

Best thing I ever did was chuck FreshRPMS.NET in early 2003.  Sure, I
tried them a few times more in 2003 and even 2004, but ran into issue
after issue.

As of January 2003, there was a new project in town, and they actually
had some "quality control" ... it was called the Fedora Project at the
University of Hawaii.  Apparently Red Hat thought they did such a good
job, they merged with them a little over a half year later.

All of the "legally questionable" stuff that's not in Fedora Extras is
now at rpm.livna.org.  Livna is aligned with Fedora Core/Extras.

Sometimes I'll tap DAG or a few others.  But _never_ FreshRPMS.NET.
Sorry, that's just my opinion, and I've pulled so many people out of
issues with FreshRPMS.NET that I can't see them recommended.

> yum repository[http://freshrpms.net], you can
> install gstreamer-plugins-extra-dvd . 
> That will allow you to play DVDs with Totem( or any other gstreamer
> based multimedia application ), which I prefer. 
> Livna may have this as well, but I am not sure. ( the package probably
> has a different name ) 
> I like Totem though, because it is the video/audio player that ships
> with GNOME. 

The great thing about Livna.ORG is that they _augment_ the built-in
Fedora Core packages, and don't try to replace them like FreshRPMS.NET
does.  Makes upgrading a crapload easier for me.


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