On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:29 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Simon Bone wrote: > <snipped> > > Is H263 an open standard or not? I hope so, since it's the only format I > > can access this video in - and bear in mind that this is *my* > > intellectual property here! I already gathered that quicktime is mostly > > owned by Apple. I rather wish that this "just worked", but I guess a bit > > of effort will be worth it. I have installed MP3 support from livia, so > > I'm not opposed to trying an external repo if I must, nor to doing what > > I must to get at this stuff. > > it's mpeg4 basically... > > either mplayer or vlc (videolan) which are available from freshrpms > and other repos should be able to play it. > Thanks. I'm tempted to try getting this working through Totem, since that's the default video player. In FC3 it is set up to use gstreamer as a back end, so if I can get the right plugins rpm for mpeg4 through that it should work, I guess. I don't see the obvious way to browse a repository to find appropriate packages BTW - browsing based on package descriptions, for not-yet installed packages, is what I want. Ideally using the same repositories I'm already set up to download from. Yum seems to be good at updating packages i have got already or installing packages I already know the name of. But what I want right now to browse for a package I know probably exists on one of the repositories I have configured, but don't know the name of. I guess a good look via the web at the repositories you mention is warranted here. But in general, there are many packages in the core repository or in the extra repository which I don't have installed yet, but might want to. I could use a tip on how to search or browse those package descriptions, without installing the package locally. And I rather feel, a package management tool that knows about my yum configuration ought to be better placed for this than my web browser. Thanks, Simon Bone
