[KLUG Members] Re: Getting MPlayer, codecs, plug-in support -- WAS: More about DV

[Bruce Smith]

> > And http://mirrors.sctpc.com/dominik/linux/pkgs/mplayer/ also has binary
> > RPM's optimized for different CPU's.  What's the difference between
> > those RPM's and the ones at freshrpms?
> 
> Just something someone else has packaged.  Anyone who wants to package
> software into RPMs is free to do so.

No, this is not "someone else".  That is the US mirror of mplayer, see:
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/dload.html

So, it appears that those are "official" RPM's, right from the source.  
They sound better to me because:

1) they are official
2) they have RPM's optimized for i686, athlon, ...
3) they have the latest version, 0.90-pre5, as a RPM.
   (instead of 0.90-pre4 at freshrpms)

Does freshrpms version support more codec's or some other advantage?


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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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