[CentOS] Multimedia on Centos 5

Tue Apr 17 06:45:46 UTC 2007
Radu-Cristian FOTESCU <beranger5ca at yahoo.ca>

--- Benjamin Sher <delphi123 at zebra.net> wrote:
> Is there a single source for the multimedia applications that are not
> included with Centos 5: RealPlayer, Mplayer, mplayerplug-in, 
> Acrobat Reader, Java, libdvdcss, etc.?

Let me add my question too: how safe it is to use the extra ATrpms, DAG and
Dries repositories from SL5?

1. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/atrpms/
has for SL5 ('el5'): 915resolution, divx4linux, ffmpeg, ipw*,
kernel-suspend2(!), madwifi, ndiswrapper, nvidia (7184, 8776, 9629, 9746)...

2. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dag/packages/
has for SL5 (el5) some of the previous packages, plus: acroread-5.0.10,
mozilla-acroread-5.0.10, flash-plugin-9.0.31.0,
gstreamer-plugins-bad/ugly/ffmpeg, ...

3. ftp://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/extra/dries/packages/
has for SL5 (el5): not much, they're still on SL4 as of yet.

There seems to be such a duplication, triplication, multimplication:
a) between Dag/Dries/RpmForge/ATrpms;
b) between original repos and selective copies on friendly repos (SL);
c) between SL and CentOS extra repos.

Don't shoot.

R-C




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