On Tuesday 20 February 2007, Ric Moore wrote: >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 I just tried it again on my FC5 lappy, but it bailed out when a site didn't upchuck a file, and refused to even do a retry. And yumex then did the job. Go figure. But generally I think its going to be better, particularly since it runs many downloads in parallel. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2007 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.