[MPlayer-users] codec RPMs?

[Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski]

On Saturday, 16 December 2006 at 05:03, Andre Robatino wrote:
>  I noticed today that on the MPlayer home page, the link for RPM 
> packages now points to Livna.org.  Most people have probably been 
> getting their MPlayer packages from other repositories like Livna and 
> Freshrpms.  However, these don't provide codec RPMs, probably due to 
> legal fears.  The danger to mplayerhq.hu for providing codec RPMs 
> shouldn't be any greater than providing tarballs.  And many of the codec 
> RPMs already available out there from other sources are far out of 
> date.  Also, for newbies, the process of unpacking a codec tarball and 
> putting the files in the right directory is difficult.  Would it be 
> possible to provide just codec RPMs?

Sure. These should be distro-agnostic.

Regards,
R.

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