On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 22:22 -0600, Peter Horst wrote: > I'm just not getting this video playback installation thing > (2.6.18-1.2239.fc5). When I try using Yum extender to install xine, I > get: > > Missing Dependency: libssl.so.5 is needed by package xine > Missing Dependency: libcrypto.so.5 is needed by package xine > > And when I try to install videolan-client (from freshrpms) I get: > > Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.11(GNUTLS_REL_1_0_9) is needed by > package videolan-client > Missing Dependency: libgnutls.so.11 is needed by package videolan-client > Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6 is needed by package videolan-client > Missing Dependency: libiso9660.so.4 is needed by package videolan-client > Missing Dependency: libcdio.so.6(CDIO_6) is needed by package > videolan-client > > I got mplayer installed, but it doesn't work: "Error > opening/initializing the selected video_out(-vo) device." > > I didn't think I was this clueless, but apparently I was wrong. Any > hints on getting any of these packages properly installed? > > Thanks much - > 1. With mplayer - it appears you need to get into Mplayer> Preferences> Video and setup driver (maybe X11 xv?) vo=video output. Make sure you have the necessary codecs. Also =Mplayer> prefences> misc - indentify your dvd or cdplayer with /dev/xxx 2. I did not have a dependency issue when I installed vlc using the livna and fedora extras repos.
