[KLUG Members] Re: Xine & Win32 libs -- FreshRPMS.NET???

[Bryan J. Smith]

Quoting Adam Williams <awilliam@whitemice.org>:
> I'm in the process of re-installing Xine after my move to RH8.0. 
> Can't find any packages so I'm installing this one from source.

FreshRPMS.NET???

They've got a whole Apt repository of the official RedHat releases plus their
own RPM set.  They've basically created something similiar to Debian (only not
quite as many packages, nor the same "packaging guidelines," but it's "good
enough" for me).

Even RedHat.COM has a link to them, although I think it would be in RedHat's
best interests to start subsidizing them.

> It reminds me to ask a question I've been wondering about for awhile -
> The Xine ./configure sports the "--with-w32-path=path    Location of
> WIN32 libraries" option.  And the Xine website claims it can use Win32
> codec libraries.
> What does this actually mean?  Had anyone used it?  It is played like
> a big deal but the documentation on this point is pretty shaky.  Several
> other video players (lamp) claim to support the same thing.

MPlayer is the king of capabilities.  You'll also find it on FreshRPMS.NET.

I usually get the Win32 codecs from the non-US MPlayer homepage (MPlayerHQ.HU).

> Does this mean one could hi-jack the Sorenson codec from a windows
> partition?  Or am I missing something?

Everything _but_ the Sorenson codec from Win32 seems to work with the players
that utilitize WINELIB, _although_ the MPlayer team was recently saying they've
got some things working with Sorenson now (haven't confirmed, could be heresay).

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