On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 23:25 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: > >Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Sunday 18 February 2007, Rex Dieter wrote: > >>> Gene Heskett wrote: > >>>> Hi; > >>>> > >>>> Trying to play a .wmv here, using kaffiene, video is great, no > >>>> audio. In wandering around in the kaffiene menu's, I cannot find a > >>>> place where one can assign an audio output path arbitrarily, it has > >>>> 'auto' and blank for the options. > >>>> > >>>> I am also getting a 'can't bind info socket' from the dvb client. > >>>> Render engine in use is kaffiene-xine, and apparently cannot be > >>>> changed because of the above error. > >>> > >>> install xine-lib-extras-nonfree from livna? Does that help? > >> > >> I just swore off of livna, once you have a livna rpm installed, its > >> dependencies absolutely preclude updating anything else. Is there not > >> an equ from freshrpms, dries, or atrpms? > > > >Yes, currently a serious pain in the arse. I'd love to see this problem > >of repos providing similar/duplicate, but incompatible versions of the > >same (in this case, multimedia) packages resolved asap. > > > >-- Rex > > It looks as if the smart package manager makes this enough easier to make > it worthwhile. I'm slowly cleaning my system up with it. Gene, on your recommendation, I installed it. That is pretty darn slick! Thanks, 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 ================================================
