On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 13:06 -0700, Peter Gordon wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > i've read differing advice on whether it's safe to mix and match > > livna, ATrpms and rpmforge repos. what i'm after is to install > > various multimedia packages (codecs, mplayer, etc.) > > > > any good advice? thanks. > > > > I'm using the official GStreamer repositories [1] with Livna and Core/Extras > for all of my multimedia needs (gstreamer-universe, mplayer, loads of > open-source codecs, et al.) No troubles here. (The Gstreamer FC5 repositories > even work well with Rawhide, but that's not considered stable at all (though > I'm weird and cooky like that). Would you give a brief on how you use it?? Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ...the Sin of Ignorance, and ...the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net ================================================