Re: VLC/mplayer (Re: The Linux desktop challenge)

["Jonathan Arnold" <user=619@nabble.blu.org>]

 Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 6:37 PM, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: 
> 
>> On Dec 3, 2007 2:04 PM, Jarod Wilson <[hidden email]> wrote: 
>>> Huh, I must not have been paying attention... Several 3rd-party Fedora 
>>> repos carried a w32codecs package for the longest time, but they all 
>>> seem to have stopped carrying it... 
>> 
>> I made a post about this on linuxquestions.org in 2002.  Someone 
>> linked me to a version of mplayer which included Microsoft WMA support 
>> (you still needed the w32codecs though)... 
>> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/wma-support-in-linux...-23541/
>> 
> 
> Yeah, I've used just that setup multiple times myself. But at least as 
> recently as 2006, I recall one could simply 'yum|apt-get|smart install 
> mplayer w32codecs' from atrpms.net and/or freshrpms.net and/or 
> livna.org. While all three continue to carry mplayer builds, none have a 
> w32codecs package anymore -- requiring Fedora users to hit up 
> mplayerhq.hu, as someone pointed out earlier. What I think I missed was 
> the reason all the 3rd-party repos stopped carrying w32codecs. 
>