This is mostly Google fodder, but some people reading live may also find it useful.
I have had AlienBBC working for some time on Fedora Core 2 and then Fedora Core 3 (upgraded via yum from FC2), but the (4GB, nearly 10 year old!) boot drive on my server was failing, so I decided to hold out until Fedora Core 4 emerged and then do a complete reinstall on a newer boot drive. As expected, most of the challenge was getting mplayer to work -- the server is AMD (XP 2600+) based. I tried the mplayer-1.0pre7 RPM for FC3 from the usual mplayer RPM source, along with the mplayer-codecs RPM -- but I couldn't get it to work. MPlayer would always crash when the cache was 18.75% full (something about af_preinit, but I didn't write down the error). Some more experimentation with compiling MPlayer from source was not encouraging (the MPlayer configure script made some frightfully derogatory remarks about the version of GCC that was installed and refused to proceed without a signed disclaimer). Eventually I tried going back to the mplayer-1.0pre6 RPM for FC3 (which you can find by looking around in the download directory at the usual mplayer RPM source), with the same mplayer-codecs package. With this combination, all that was required was a symbolic link from cook.so.6.0 to cook.so (in the codecs directory) to persuade things to work correctly again. Best; inw -- Ian Whalley <first name> @ <last name> . org _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/plugins
