FIX: Mplayer DTS support repos

Applicable to Fedora Versions

• Fedora Core 7

Requirements

Contemporaneous use of Livna and Freshrpms repositories

Doing the work

For those of you who have a need for full blown DTS support in mplayer, you already know the problems with the infamous libdca packaging by two different repositories, Livna and Freshrpms. For a series of reasons, and provided you are a user of both repositories, you are bound to have issues with that particular package. For further information on why this is necessary, check mplayer mailing lists if you do require such media playback support.

1. Remove any mplayer / ffmpeg / mencoder packages you may have installed first
2. As root user, you will have to edit a couple of .repo files with your favorite editor, so open up a terminal and:

cd /etc/yum.repos.d/

3. Add the exclude= statement to your livna.repo file within the [livna] section in /etc/yum.repos.d/ :

[livna]
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exclude=mplayer* mencoder* ffmpeg*

4. Add the exclude= statement to your freshrpms.repo file within the [freshrpms] section in the same directory as above:

[freshrpms]
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exclude=libdca*

5. Reinstall mplayer using yum

yum install mplayer

This way you can enjoy the goodies of the mplayer as packaged by freshrpms without having issues with the other nice packages you find in livna. The issue is with the libdca packaging and its dependency with mplayer, ffmpeg ecc.

Troubleshoot

Check for proper editing of your .repo files. No other known issues are present with the above exclude statements correctly set. WARNING: this procedure will make vlc and avidemux non - installable (again, libdca packaging differs between the two repositories). Use only if you have problems with DTS playback support on Fedora 7.

Disclaimer

Regarding any legal issues surrounding libdca use for DTS, refer to the repositories who offer the package(s) involved freely for end user deployment.The above set of instructions has been thoroughly tested in a 64bit Fedora 7 installation. Use at your own risk of any consequences of any kind.