Dear friends: Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.? Would appreciate your help. Thank you so much. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 02:51, Garrick Staples wrote:> On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Benjamin Sher alleged: > > Dear friends: > > > > Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not > > included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat > > Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.? > > Due to legalities, no. Commercial software like RealPlayer and Acrobat > comes from their respective vendors, but are also available through RHEL > (because they work out the licensing deals). Patent and DMCA-encumbered > software like libdvdcss has to come from 3rd party repos.Dear Garrick: Thank you again for your clarification. Benjamin -- Sher's Russian Web http://www.websher.net Benjamin Sher sher07 at mindspring.com
--- Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:> Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not > included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, > Acrobat Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.?Let me add my question too: how safe it is to use the extra ATrpms, DAG and Dries repositories from SL5? 1. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/atrpms/ has for SL5 ('el5'): 915resolution, divx4linux, ffmpeg, ipw*, kernel-suspend2(!), madwifi, ndiswrapper, nvidia (7184, 8776, 9629, 9746)... 2. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/packages/ has for SL5 (el5) some of the previous packages, plus: acroread-5.0.10, mozilla-acroread-5.0.10, flash-plugin-9.0.31.0, gstreamer-plugins-bad/ugly/ffmpeg, ... 3. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dries/packages/ has for SL5 (el5): not much, they're still on SL4 as of yet. There seems to be such a duplication, triplication, multimplication: a) between Dag/Dries/RpmForge/ATrpms; b) between original repos and selective copies on friendly repos (SL); c) between SL and CentOS extra repos. Don't shoot. R-C Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Benjamin Sher alleged:> Dear friends: > > Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not included > with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat Reader, Java, > libdvdcss, etc.?Due to legalities, no. Commercial software like RealPlayer and Acrobat comes from their respective vendors, but are also available through RHEL (because they work out the licensing deals). Patent and DMCA-encumbered software like libdvdcss has to come from 3rd party repos. -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070416/1e56c309/attachment-0004.sig>
On 16/04/07, Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:> Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not included > with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, Acrobat Reader, Java, > libdvdcss, etc.?Packman should have most of the multimedia stuff. -- Alvin Chang Yu-Ming