On Friday 04 May 2007 12:35, Tony Smith wrote:
> > Can anyone give me advice on how to get radio 3, CDs, DVDs etc. playing
> > in Etch?
>
> Have you tried PCLinuxOS? http://www.pclinuxos.com/
Yes. It was one of the earliest I tried. It didn't work OOTB and it has very
small repositories.
>
> I have all the multimedia stuff working on Kubuntu 7.07 but had to install
> the extras manually
This is probably part of the problem. I have not used my own box as a
multimedia centre, so don't really know what to install. If something
complains that it can't find something I install whatever it is that it can't
find. But when I once got BBC playing it was appallingly jerky (as it was
under PCLinuxOS :-( ) and I couldn't sort it out. This has been going on
for weeks, and he is getting very fed-up. :-((
I couldn't trouble you for a list of the extras, could I?
If it were my own box I would just try CentOS 5 and (K)Ubuntu 7.04. But that
takes time and he is seriously fed up . I would be if I were in his
shoes. :-((
TIA
Lisi
> PCLinuxOS works out of the box, my 2 teenagers are using it quite happily
> and believe me if they could listen to multimedia I would have heard
> complaints!
>
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