Thanks guys,
i've also started a thread on SLF with comprihensible list of SL7 
'positive' 3rd party repos to have it somewhere easily accessible...

cheers :]

On 10/26/2014 10:05 PM, John Pilkington wrote:
> On 26/10/14 20:00, Alan Bartlett wrote:
>> On 26 October 2014 19:52, Jason Bronner <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>> You can get away with most playback using the FFMPEG package and VLC
>>> Media
>>> Player, FFMPEG is generally available on ATRPMS, ELREPO, and
>>> RPMFORGE. VLC
>>> Media player has a native .RPM for Enterprise Linuxes on
>>> videolan.org. Those
>>> two seem to bug the least and work the best across platforms for me for
>>> playback and encode/decode.
>>
>> Just a quick correction.
>>
>> We, the ELRepo Project [1], do not carry an rpm for ffmpeg in our
>> repositories. For a reliable source of that utility please check with
>> EPEL [2].
>>
>> Alan.
>>
>> [1] http://elrepo.org
>> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL
>>
>
> As of a few hours ago I have working SL7 installations of MythTV
> (master) and a recent VLC.  The non-SL repos that I have enabled are
> epel and li.nux.ro, which says that it aims for compatibility with epel.
>   Its spec file for mythtv is an update of that from rpmfusion, which
> seems not to offer el7 yet.  I'm expecting to use elrepo too, having
> used its SL6 kernels for well over a year - thanks, Alan.
>
> My home-build of MythTV master suffered today from the SL auto-upgrade
> feature; rpm version labels need to be constructed with care.
>
> John P
>


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