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.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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