Re: mplayer vs. xine

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> Michael (and the rpm.livna.org maintainer), please see my brand-new HOWTO
> on this topic:
> 
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multimedia-Installation-HOWTO/index.html
> 
> I found I had to add freshrpms in order to get apt.  I needed apt in order
> to get jre RPMs from Dag Wieers's repository.  
> 
> I would actually like to recommend livna only in my HOWTO, but there
> are things it lacks.  If livna wants to be the one-stop shop for
> everything proprietary and patented that isn't in Fedora Core (which
> is where it seems to be heading, and I heartily approve), then it
> needs to carry the following:
> 
> Java jre RPMs (see Dag Wieers's repostory)
> mame and mame ROM RPMs

XMame is totally free and legal, isn't it ? Mame ROMS are illegal
though, and not only in the US (this is not a software patent problem).

> RealPlayer RPMs (see http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/)
> Win32 binary-codec RPMs to be used with mplayer

How about Flash plugin and libdvdcss ?

-- 
Julien Olivier <julo altern org>