Fedora Core 8 and dvd::rip from freshrpm's problem

[Aaron Konstam]

On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 01:45 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-01 at 03:13 +0000, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote:
> > Joseph L. Casale spake thusly:
> > 
> > > After a clean install of fc8, a full yum update, I then add freshrpms
> > > and install dvdrip. I then setup a project, rip the dvd, but the preview
> > > fails. I have searched their forum and found some issues but it seems
> > > non apply, there is no actual error other then that the file isn't
> > > created?
> > 
> > Uninstall it and then Use the livna repo[1] instead of Freshrpms.
> > 
> > If you still have problems, file a bug report with them.[2] :)
> > 
> > [1] http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/
> > 
> > [2] http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/Bugzilla
> 
> My experience has been the opposite. For the longest time Xine went
> bananas playing back .flv files until I switched everything over to
> Freshrpms. Then, everything worked. I dunno, everyones' mileage will
> vary! :) Ric
> 
There is a problem with totem and xine on the installed Fedora. The
Livna versions work as do the freshrpms I suspect. I always need to
install totem-xine form livna to get totem to work.
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