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List:       fedora-list
Subject:    Re: Kaffiene question re audio
From:       Anne Wilson <cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk>
Date:       2007-02-19 15:19:37
Message-ID: 200702191520.14158.cannewilson () tiscali ! co ! uk
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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.
>
IMO this does a great deal of harm to the Fedora distro.  Anyone searching the 
archives will find dozens if not hundreds of 'problem' posts that are 
actually caused by these repos.  It gives a very bad impression of Fedora.

Anne

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