Mplayer,livna, and MRL formated dvd's Q

Gene heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Sat Oct 27 20:52:11 UTC 2007


On Saturday 27 October 2007 16:27:00 Jonathan Underwood wrote:
> On 27/10/2007, Gene heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> wrote:
> > I finally removed the livna-release-7.1.rpm cuz it also crashed yumux.
> >
> > So how do I go about getting mplayer to install on an uptodate F7 lappy
> > with a 64 bit turion running the i386 f7 install?
> >
> > We really would like to be able to read about these medications.
>
> Livna should work - the livna webpage currently has
>
> http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm
>
> linked, although I notice my system must have updated to a newer
> -release package because:
> $ rpm -qa | grep livna
> livna-release-7-2

That's the one I installed, and it totally wiped out smarts ability to manage 
its database, and when smart was killed by rebooting, and yumex tried, it 
also locked up yumex.

> Anyway - go to http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/ and click on the "Fedora
> 7 repository rpm" and install that. The install mplayer at the command
> line with a
>
> yum install mplayer mplayer-gui
>
> You might also consider installing xine, an alternative DVD player with
>
> yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree
>
> If you really don't want to use livana, and alternative is FreshRPMs
> (http://freshrpms.net/) which also carries mplayer and xine. I would
> not recommending using livna and freshrpms together though.

I don't, freshrpms has generally worked quite well for me though.

> HTH
> Jonathan.



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