I have the most recent release of mplayer that's available on rpmforge, at least according to yum.
However, I also have this information from the CentOS list: ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[email protected]> Date: Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 3:45 PM Subject: Re: [CentOS] Can't play DVD movies on CentOS 5.3 after following guidance on the wiki To: CentOS mailing list <[email protected]> > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 at 1:06pm, MHR wrote > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:53 PM, Joshua Baker-LePain <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> What version of mplayer are you using (and from what repo)? The CentOS > >> version doesn't help too much, as mplayer isn't included in any of the > >> default repos. And this doesn't appear to be a very recent feature > >> (googling reveals references to it that are over a year old). > >> > > > > You made me look, and I found that I was missing a couple of packages. > > I now have: > > > > mplayer-fonts-1.1-3.0.rf.noarch > > mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.x86_64 > > mplayer-skins-1.8-1.nodist.rf.noarch > > mplayer-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 > > mplayerplug-in-3.55-1.el5.rf.i386 > > mplayer-docs-1.0-0.40.rc1try2.el5.rf.x86_64 > > > > These are the most recent imports from rpmforge. > > That may be, but that's actually a *very* old version of mplayer. The most > recent "release" > of mplayer is 1.0rc2, and *that's* dated 10/7/07 > (see <http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/ChangeLog>). Most folks run > SVN > snapshots of mplayer -- rpmfusion's package for Fedora, e.g., is a SVN > snapshot from 9/3/08. > And even that is too old for a lot of things. For my HTPC, e.g., I compiled > mplayer from my > own SVN checkout so I could use VDPAU, which only got added within the last > few months. > I'm wondering what the chances are that we could get a more recent (than 2 years old) version of mplayer on rpmforge. Just asking. Thanks. mhr _______________________________________________ users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/users
