[NBLUG/talk] Mplayer and Fedora 8

[Scott Doty]

On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 12:09:11PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> 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.

mplayer actually comes from (or should come from) livna, which is where some
of the, ahem, "questionably-licenced" software for Fedora resides...

   http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/

Jack, assuming you've enabled the Livna repo, and you've done "yum install
mplayer" and "yum install libdvdcss", it should just work out of the box. 
(Does for me...I'm using x86_64...)

BTW, folks with other distros that can use SRPMS might be interested in
browsing:  http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/8/SRPMS/ -- there's
plenty of "extras" available in that repo that might come in handy...

 -Scott