Re: RedHat 10 wishlist

From: Keith Clark (clarkphotography_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/01/03 

Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:39:18 GMT

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:26:22 -0600, nobody wrote:

> L'Administrateur wrote:
>
>> It was asked what people might wish for in RedHat 10
>>
>> Here's my response...
>>
>
>
>
> I'm looking forward to the day that Linux becomes completely multimedia
> capable "right out of the box". By completely, I mean able to play DVDs,
> VCDs and all common video and audio media formats. People tell me that
> this capability can be added but - for example - I have never been able to
> watch Jurassic Park on my box.
>
> I buy an average of one distro every year. Seems like somebody would get
> their act together and build a commercial distro that is a complete
> solution for multimedia.

So install Ogle and Xine. Both are very capable DVD players. Use mplayer
to watch other things. Install Totem (!!!) for good multimedia integration
with Nautilus.

A US company like RedHat probably can't afford the DMCA liability of
including an unlicensed DVD player, and to use a licensed player, like
Lindows does, raises the cost considerably.

Here's a list of the RPMs I installed for this. Install these and you'll
be able to watch DVDs, with full menu functions, watch many types of
Quicktime files and Windows Media files, and even do some DVD ripping (use
DVDRip as a great GUI). Use www.rpmfind.net to locate them.

a52dec-0.7.4-fr3.i386.rpm
alsa-lib-0.9.7-1.fr.i386.rpm
faad2-2.0-0.1.rc1.fr.i386.rpm
ffmpeg-0.4.7-0.20030701.1.fr.i386.rpm
imlib2-1.0.6-fr3.i386.rpm
lame-3.93.1-fr2.i386.rpm
libdvdcss-1.2.8-1.fr.i386.rpm
libdvdread-0.9.4-fr3.i386.rpm
libfame-0.9.0-fr2.i386.rpm
libpostproc-0.90-4.20030808.fr.i386.rpm
lzo-1.08-fr2.i386.rpm
ogle-0.9.1-fr3.i386.rpm
ogle_gui-0.9.1-fr2.i386.rpm
ogmtools-1.0.3-fr1.i386.rpm
perl-Video-DVDRip-0.50.15-1.fr.i386.rpm
subtitleripper-0.3-fr1.i386.rpm
transcode-0.6.9-1.fr.i386.rpm
vcdimager-0.7.14-fr1.i386.rpm
xvidcore-0.9.2-1.fr.i386.rpm
mencoder-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-real-9.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-linux-xanim-1.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-1.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-dmo-9.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-mjpeg2k-1.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-qt-6.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-codecs-win32-qtextras-1.0-2.i386.rpm
mplayer-common-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-font-iso1-1.0-3.noarch.rpm
mplayer-gui-0.90-1.i386.rpm
mplayer-skin-default-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
mplayer-skin-phony-1.0-2.noarch.rpm
aalib-1.4rc5-fr2.i386.rpm
alsa-lib-0.9.0rc5-fr1.i386.rpm
flac-1.1.0-fr3.i386.rpm
speex-1.1-1.i586.rpm
xine-0.9.22-1.fr.i386.rpm
xine-lib-1.0.0-0.1.rc0a.fr.i386.rpm
xine-skins-1.6-1.fr.noarch.rpm

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