Tony writes:
I installed Mplayer from Yum.
Note how others reply by quoting an excerpt from the previous message, followed by their comments, so the end result reads like a normal back-and-forth conversation. But when someone opens your message and begin reading it, the first thing they see is a proclamation "I installed Mplayer from Yum". Well, good for you, then. Enjoy your mplayer.
Nobody would really have any idea what you're talking about, until they scroll to the very end of your reply, and read backwards, and figure out what your problem is.
This is called "top-posting", and is considered rather rude, and it's very unlikely that people will want to continue to help you, if they cannot open your message, begin reading, and immediately understand the subject matter. Please don't do it again.
Now, having gotten that out of the way: patch files are applied to the source code directly, then the entire application gets rebuilt. If you do not know how to do that, this is not something that can be explained in one or two paragraphs. The only thing you can do is forward the patch to mplayer's maintainers, and ask them to apply it, then wait for the updated mplayer package to show up in livna, in a couple of months, or so.
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 11:51 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:Tony writes: > Since I've never had to do this before, how would one go about applying > this on an FC6 x86-64 system? I've never applied a patch before, first> time so I want to make sure I do this right. This was under the > /ivtv-0.10.0/misc directory.Extract the mplayer source. Change to the top of mplayer's source directory, and type:patch -p1 </path/to/ivtv-0.10/misc/MPlayer-1.0pre7try2-ivtvosd.diff _______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users_______________________________________________ ivtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-users
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