On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 22:25 -0600, Peter Horst wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 18:43 -0900, gary wrote:
> > > For the record, mplayer works when I feed the launcher the name of a
> > > video driver, as 'gmplayer -vo xv', but not otherwise. And the
> > > "Configure driver" button in Preferences is still greyed out. Some
> > > things were just not meant to be understood by me.
> >
> > 1.I have no idea why you can't set preferences.
> > 2.You will get a vo error if you don't have the proper codecs.
> > 3. vlc - Are you certain you have the Fedoro repos enabled when trying
> > to install vlc from freshrpms? ( try livna instead)
>
> Thanks for your continued support. I d/l'd every codec I could get my
> hands on but the mplayer situation hasn't changed (which is fine). As
> for vlc, this is maybe a dumb question, but if I enable the livna repos
> do I need somehow to disable 'extras' and refresh my repos listings? The
> reason I ask is that I have tried again using livna and gotten the same
> dependency errors as before.
>
I would - enable fedora repo, fedora extras repo, livna repo - disable
other repos. Then run " yum clean all " - then "yum update " - then
"yum install vlc". ( make sure no devel or testing repo are enabled)
-----gary
