[NBLUG/talk] Mplayer and Fedora 8

[Lincoln Peters]

On Jan 13, 2008 10:41 AM, Jack Smith <jack.delbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> Has anyone tried to use the Mplayer that comes with Fedora 8 to play DVDs?
> I have and I'm failing miserably.  Looks like the picture is made up of
> multi-colored giant pixels.  Any ideas?

Red Hat has been known to pull support for just about anything that
might have any sort of patent issues (there was a big deal about them
pulling support for MP3 audio a few years ago).  I don't know if
Fedora is the same way (probably is, since it was started by Red Hat),
but you could try downloading MPlayer from <http://www.mplayerhq.hu>
and see if it gives different results.


-- 
Lincoln Peters
<anfrind at gmail.com>