Re: Multimedia on Centos 5

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On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 01:56:45PM -0400, Benjamin Sher alleged:
> Dear friends:
> 
> 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.?

Due to legalities, no.  Commercial software like RealPlayer and Acrobat
comes from their respective vendors, but are also available through RHEL
(because they work out the licensing deals).  Patent and DMCA-encumbered
software like libdvdcss has to come from 3rd party repos.

-- 
Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin
University of Southern California

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