No, they just followed fedora's xmms update.
As long as it's build with the same sources and has the same name, this doesn't change anything.
See yourself:
http://mirrors.usc.edu/pub/linux/fed....10-9.i386.rpm
http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp...c3.fr.i386.rpm

If xmms fails, do you report the bug to fedora or freshrpms?
It's freshrpm's package, not fedora's. If it was Fedora's package, then there would be no need for freshrpms to have it.

There are two cases I know of where xmms was working fine, freshrpm's updated xmms (which there should be absolutely no need to do if they are in fact the same as you claim) and xmms segfaulted.

I don't know that it was xmms itself to blame, it could have been a kernel driver or an xmms plugin (that's what I'm actually guessing) or something else.

Unless the md5sum of the .fr xmms binary matches the md5sum of the fedora xmms binary, it is a different xmms, and if the md5sum does match, then there is no point in it being part of the freshrpms repository.

I know it may seem like I'm making a bigger deal out of this than I need to, for all I know his xmms is less buggy than the Fedora xmms. It's just that replacing a vendor installed binary is something that the user should intentionally opt to do, not have it done for them by accident because they added someones repository and ran "yum update".

Hopefully a future version of yum will make that easier automatically.

Oh - and for the record, I'm very grateful for freshrpm's.
I've used his packages plenty. Even some that replace vendor installed packages.

I recommend Mplayer for playing all of those... as I have had better picture quality out of mPlayer. http://mplayerhq.hu

There should be pre-built packages for Fedora Core... and if not you could install it from source real easy, just follow the documentation on the site.

Mplayer is good.
Currently I only use it to rip audio from DVD's (such as U2 Rattle and Hum) - but it handles just about anything you can throw at it.

By the way, in totem-xine there is an "Add proprietary plugins" button. Where do I find these plugins?

It's there in totem-gstreamer too.
I don't think they exist yet - I know fluendo is planning to sell some in the near future.

Now thats the same as my system!!
Can we get drivers for the Gforce? I tried in FC2 but it failed a few times ( the all in one driver from nvidia)
I find fc 3 a touch faster all round.
Totem looks nice and clean but I cant play any of my own mpegs, is there a plugin?
Plays avi's fine and looks good in full screen which is where most fall donw on.
Cheers
kedman

I can play mpeg's using my gstreamer plugins -

http://mpeters.us/linux/fc3_gstreamer.php

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With respect to nvidia's driver - the rpm.livna.org packaging of the driver worked fine with one hitch - grep would segfault when doing a recursive grep of the /etc directory.

So I removed it and now can't play tuxracer

I'm looking at getting a ATI card that has OSS DRI drivers (I think 8500-9250) but haven't yet.