Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Mon Jul 9 13:01:12 UTC 2007
Karl Larsen wrote:
>>> This whole thing started with the fact that you must go outside
>>> Fedora to get a system that really plays Movies. I just put VLC Media
>>> player on my laptop. You still have to get the big group of
>>> supporting dependants so it will run on Fedora 7.
>>
>> But note that some repositories that may be illegal for someone in the
>> US to even mention here have all the components packaged to install
>> with yum. Which puts us back to where we started.
>>
> Not quite. To get a working VLC Media Player or any other software you
> need something like the 35KByte libdvdcss to make MY Viewer work with
> DVD Movies which I PAID FOR.
OK, it's not a dependency in the vlc rpm so you have to add it to the
yum command line or make another run. The libdvdread which is a
dependency will dynamically load it if it is available.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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