[nzlug] Xine on Fedora 8: does it work for anyone?

[Simon Bridge]

On Sat, 2008-05-03 at 15:14 +1200, Patrick Connolly wrote:
> Somewhere about Sat, 03-May-2008 at 01:30PM +1200 (give or take), Nevyn wrote:
> 
> |> On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Patrick Connolly
> |> <tuxkid at slingshot.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> [....]
> 
> |> Hi Patrick,
> |> 
> |> You can drivers here:
> |> http://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
> 
> No X1200 Series there.  Is there any danger using the X1300 one?  The
> FAQ refers to the oldest being a Radeon 8500.  Nothing tells me
> whether X1200 is older or not.
> 

Hmmm...
http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=163174
... discusses your ATI card in fedora. Seems it's the Radeon 9600.


> I have an Nvidia 7200 Series card which is "certified for Vista".  Am
> I likely to have more or fewer problems getting that to work?
> 
You will very likely have less trouble with configuration.

yum install kmod-nvidia
http://www.fedorafaq.org/#nvidia

Also read through:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html

> http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/f8-tips.php
> 
> It recommended installing a xine-skins rpm, but when I try that, I get
> a message saying there's no such package.  I'd have thought that would
> have had only cosmetic effects on xine.  The basic skin is fine by me,
> so I didn't get too upset about it.  Did I misread something?
> 
Or you misspelled it, or greg misspelled it... he's been known to get
stuff wrong: greg also states that totem cannot play DVDs.

> I thought I got the general gist, but I can't understand why kaffeine
> doesn't have any problem.  I know it's a more basic player (though
> it's pretty good), so does it mean that fancier stuff is needed for
> that cool way Xine can zoom to any intermediate degree (instead of
> just doubling or halving)?

Kaffein may have a smaller impact on system resources, it's also closely
integrated with KDE. But we don't have enough information to figure it
out. They are different programs so they do things differently.