Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2.
Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary rpm?
I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me).
Later Mike
It would appear that whoever maintains the "livna" repo for yum has taken care of all of that:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html (theres a section on importing their repo, and then basically you yum -y install mplayer)
Theo
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2.
Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary rpm?
I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me).
Later Mike
On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:36, Theodore wrote this amazing epistle:
It would appear that whoever maintains the "livna" repo for yum has taken care of all of that:
Cool.
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html (theres a section on importing their repo, and then basically you yum -y install mplayer)
Thanks for the info. I took a quick look at the site. I'll have to do some configuration stuff first. It looks like this might do the trick.
Slightly busy with the latest beta of pan at the moment. With Shaw, it seems the key is to shut things down when they stall and then restart. Apparently they also "upgraded" the news servers while I was down.
Theo
Later Mike
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2.
Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary rpm?
I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me).
Later Mike
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On Sunday 11 June 2006 17:36, Theodore wrote this amazing epistle:
It would appear that whoever maintains the "livna" repo for yum has taken care of all of that:
http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html (theres a section on importing their repo, and then basically you yum -y install mplayer)
Theo
Thanks. It worked very well. It feels as though there is less control than there was with FC2 and compiling it myself. I did a couple of things out of sequence but they still work.
Basic steps: -Get the codecs and put them in the appropriate directory (follow Xine instructions) -Add the dries repository to the list in the appropriate directory (instructions also on the same site) -Update what's available in yum -Follow the instructions previously quoted for just MPlayer or the ones on the site to get the fonts, skins, and GUI as well.
From there I was up and running.
Later Mike
Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Some good things and some not so good things. Over all I'm not impressed, but there aren't enough problems (yet) to justify my going back to Fedora 2.
Anyhow... I just recompiled MPlayer and at first it didn't like the compiler. I told it not to check the compiler and there was an error near the end of the "make" step. I did a quick check of the MPlayer site and it seems they've moved over to a new machine (without saying where it is). I still have a copy of Pre-7 from before. Has anybody been able to install/compile it for Fedora 5? If so, how? Is there anything newer than Pre-7? Have the codecs been updated? Is there indeed a new site or was I hallucinating as a result of being up until 4:00am the previous night? Do I have to go and get the binary rpm?
I'll ask again at the meeting on Tuesday. Alternatively, if I get it working I'll tell everybody how (if someone reminds me).
Later Mike
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