[Centos] Re: CentOS Digest, Vol 3, Issue 73

Peter Harmsen
Sun, 13 Mar 2005 07:47:39 -0000

On Saturday 12 March 2005 23:26, centos-request@caosity.org
wrote:
> On a closely related topic, the mplayer RPMs do not come equipped with
> all the necessary codecs (due to licensing issues, I presume). I
> couldn''t find any RPMs with the necessary codecs, so I installed a
set
> manually, but the codecs only work partially. For example, mplayer can
> play movie trailers both (sound and video) and .mp3 files, but it
> fails with .mpeg files.
>
> Does a supported RPM with the proper codecs for mplayer exist
> anywhere? I found a reference somewhere about an
> mplayer-codecs-essential package, but I can''t find it anywhere.
>
> --
I went to the following site:http://dag.wieers.com/home-made/apt/FAQ.php#B
in order to use the DAG repository with "up2date"
i added "yum dag http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el4/en/$ARCH/dag"
to "/etc/sysconfig/rhn/sources",now installing mplayer
was simply : "up2date mplayer" in the console (as root).