Re: [tlug] FC5 Sucks: firewire drive/videos

[Darren Cook <darren@example.com>]

> After about one week with FC6, ...

>> Q3: Which distributions work well for multimedia, out of the box?
> 
> It's not out of the box, but I have found it easy to become able to
> play .wmv and .avi files, by downloading xine (you can get it with yum
> from livna) and copying the codecs from mplayer's site. Only these two
> steps, without the need to recompile anything

I'd tried that; in fact that is my current setup that plays DVDs. I just
found up a wmv and that plays okay. But AVIs still crash xine.

However I've been told the latest versions of xine are now on extras,
and just the non-free parts have been left on livna. I've not looked
into this yet (or rather I've not looked into why yum didn't find it
itself - I may have extras repository disabled...).

Darren