How to multimedia xmms, rythmbox, ogle, etc.

[imdeemvp]

Lack of multimedia in fedora is one of my major complaints. This is intended for our newbies that have problems setup multimedia for mp3 music and dvd playback. Some commands are for fedora core 3, 4 and 5.

UPDATE: I started using mplayer. (http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/) Make sure you download the 6 packages tchung is listing. This is my personal yum installation of mplayer (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53335) which can be compare to windows media player. Totem will also meet your needs.

UPDATE: I added streamtuner for internet music lovers using shoutcast and others.


This how-to will show how to install: AmaroK, Mplayer, XMMS, Totem, Kaffeine, Ogle, Realplayer, MP3 plugins, and codecs for your music, video needs. Just added Streamtuner for listening music over your internet connection and all other streaming needs.

You need the repositories to install via YUM. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27279)

1. Not being able to work my way aroud xmms in fedora core 1 I discovered Zinf player and you can read the post for more info. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1307)

2. If you really want to rediscover your music you have to try amaroK! (http://amarok.kde.org/) This is one of the latest music player by KDE and it's awesome. Amarok is not included in fedora as it is with other distros such as mandriva but it is avaliable from livna and fedora extras. You will need some kde dependencies but it you use kde as your desktop of choice it will take less than 5 mins. to install. Just run: yum install amarok You can also find it at the fedoranews.org (http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Rediscover_Your_Music_With_Amarok_Linux_Player)

Rythmbox Player
3. In FC3 I decided to try Rythmbox which is a very good music player too. We need to install some plug-ins to make work properly. Run this command to install via yum for fc 3 and 4 users:
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-mp3

FEDORA CORE 5 USERS USE THIS COMMAND:yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

XMMS Player and adding winamp presets.
4. If you did not install xmms during installation run this command in terminal to install all require apps:
yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-wma xmms-skins
To add the winamp presets go to this how-to. (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=500267)

5. Streamtuner and Beep Player
To listen to streaming music from the internet you will need streamtuner. (http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/) Just run this command to install all needed apps and dependencies:
yum -y install streamtuner bmp-mp3Please note under fedora streamtuner uses beep player that is why its needed to install bmp-mp3 plug-in and another dependency.

FunkyRes showed me how to do online music using Rythmbox.
You need to have mp3 support in gstreamer (can play mp3 files in Rhythmbox)

Download a shoutcast playlist file from http://www.shoutcast.com/

I right click on the "tune in" button and choose "save link as"

It will end in a .pls

Then from Rhythmbox -

Choose the radio option (opposed to Library)
Go to the Music menu and choose

Playlist -> Load from file ...

Select the .pls file, and it should show up in your internet radio stations. Choose it and press Play.

Same concept applies to XMMS.

RealPlayer For Linux
6. Download realplayer for linux here. (http://www.real.com/linux/) Open terminal and install it:
rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpmTo use it go to >Sound and Video >Realplayer.

For DVD playback I've used Ogle, Totem (my favorite in fc2, and 3), kaffeine and mplayer (mplayer will play .avi, .mov and mpeg files). If you have your yum repo's setup (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27279) you can always use yum to install. (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25880)

Ogle Player and all needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
I will not get in a lot details about Ogle but this is the yum command:
yum install ogle

Kaffeine Player and needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
Kaffeine is another great player for dvd and mp3 music you can also use yum to install it:
yum install kaffeine
it only needs one dependency and yum will install it for you.

Totem Player and all needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
To install Totem I suggest you use Livna or Freshrpms repository because both provide the best installation including all dependencies needed. BUT before you install totem you must make sure you did not install that one included in fedora if so remove it first:
rpm -e totemNOW you can install from yum!
yum install totem-xine

To install the codecs for mplayer open termial become root and do the following:
$ wget ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2
$ tar jxvf essential-20050412.tar.bz2
$ mkdir /usr/lib/win32
$ cp essential-20050412/* /usr/lib/win32
Please note that the version may change and here is the link for the latest codecs. (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html)

To install the mplayerplug-in do the following:
Download it (http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox-mplayerplug-in/) and install it:rpm -ivh --nodeps mplayerplug-in-2.75-0.FC3.i386.rpm
Check you mplayerplug-in here: http://www.apple.com/trailers/

To hear some sound in firefox or mozilla install mozplugger:
yum -y install mozplugger

Grip MP3 ripper to rip music:
yum install grip

These are the rpms I use for mplayer (http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/)

Rythmbox website. (http://www.rhythmbox.org/) XMMS website (http://www.xmms.org) Ogle website (http://www.dtek.chalmers.se/groups/dvd/)

Read this thread for more info about RealPlayer for Linux (http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1383)

[mooninite]

Compile latest xmms source + streaming fix patch. Compile xine. Done. :)

[imdeemvp]

Compile latest xmms source + streaming fix patch. Compile xine. Done. :)
Intended for newbies......not every one knows how to compile.

[windjunky]

Why didnt FC3 ship with MPlayer? Until I read imdeemvp's "FC3 Installation Notes" I couldnt remember what i used on FC1 and was pissed that what came with FC3 didnt play any of the video's I wanted it to. Whats the point of HelixPlayer and Totem if they can't play anything (avi, wmv, qt, mp4...etc) Why even include those?

[imdeemvp]

According to this reply we are to do it ourselves: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showpost.php?p=133507&postcount=32

[neilius]

If you use the yum.conf from the Fedora FAQ site, you can simply type:

yum install xmms xmms-mp3 xine libdvdcss

which will install xmms, the mp3 plugin for xmms the xine media player (which rocks, but you can use mplayer instead if you like, xine just works better for me), all it's dependancies and the libraries needed to decode most DVDs that are encrypted (which is pretty much most DVDs you buy).

So with one command you can now play pretty much anything you want to throw at Fedora, apart from RealMedia stuff (I don't use RealPlayer due to problems I was having with it anyway). You can also get rid of RhythmBox, HelixPlayer or anything else that's now redundant if you like by using

yum remove <program>

without < and >.

And to get xine to autoplay DVDs when you insert them, just go to Application --> Preferences --> Removable Storage and add the command 'xine -pd' to the DVD Videos section. Lovely jubbly!

Maybe someone can add this to the Fedora FAQ under the heading of 'How can I play my DVDs in Fedora Core 3?'

Hope this is of help for some people!

Regards,

Neil. :)

[imdeemvp]

I get you point but some of our user are new to linux so I prefer to me a little more simple. Its like this: You dont give a baby a burger but you feeding with milk. Next thing you know all they wanna do is go to mcdonald's.

[Shadow Skill]

Off topic sort of:

Well I for one am quite glad fc3 doesn't ship with mplayer, in fact no distro should ship with that crappy thing, its insulting that they have not granted the gui full functionality after so much time, no one should support their shoddy work.

On topic:

The point of this how-to is to help the less adept get up and running so they stick around long enough to become adept and write howto's of their own. That's all that should be aimed for in this section of the forum imo.

Off topic again sort of:
MVP do you happen to know where rhythm box's ipod support dissappeared to? One version back on fc2 had a beta ipod support feature but it seems to have evaporated. Also can RB play aac and ogg files? One last thing is it normal to see two processes named xmms when looking in the system monitor, my xmms really loves to lock up, stop playing abruptly and even lock up the whole system, I was wondering if the dual xmms process thing might be at fault?

[imdeemvp]

To be honest I dont have an ipod (expensive!) so I dont have an answer for you. If you install the gstreamer plugin you may have the possibility but I dont know.

[fryem720]

Been tooling with linux for about 6 months, but still consider myself a real newbie.

A few things. I used to love rhythmbox, until I moved all my mp3s from one partition to another on my external HD. Now rhythmbox refuses to play them. Permissions are the same, etc. It's almost like it still thinks they are where they used to be. When I try to reload my library, it seems to find them but won't play them. Any suggestions?

Also, there are about three songs (out of about 1400) that never would load into the library due to a gstreamer problem. What gives?

In the meantime, I discovered xmms, which I really like alot. Very powerful, very versatile, very configurable. I was also able to start streaming internet radio from Shoutcast and Live365, something I couldn't figure out how to do with rhythmbox.

My only real complaint - and its a big one - is the lack of a media library function like rhythmbox has (but, which isn't working for me at the moment. Ahem.) I found a media library plugin here:

http://xpg.dk/blog/projects/xmms-media-library

but it's pretty limited in functionality. It will find your music where you tell it to look. Double-clicking on a song will add it to the playlist. But that's it. No configuration options. You can't sort songs in any way at all. How they show up is the way you will always see them.

Does anyone know of a better library plugin for xmms?

[Shadow Skill]

Well I figured out that I had to recompile rhythmbox to get the Ipod support [it was quite painless for once.] the thing is I can't get my aac files [formated by Itunes as .m4a] to get into rhythmbox if I compile it with gstreamer it just doesn't read them; if I try it using the xine backend just crashes when it tries to import my aac files which number about 300 or so songs and increasing everytime I rip one of my brother's cd's. So I am not going to reconvert all of those songs especially when aac files take up less space, just to please these players. Sigh Multimedia audio support is truly in a sad state with Linux :( I am stuck using xmms crapware until gstreamer is fixed or rhythmbox gets its act together. What is strange is that totem-xine plays my aac files just fine but rhythmbox with the xine backend can't even import the songs without blowing up...

[Forlorn]

I found on the rhythmbox page a plugin for xchat that displays the title in xchat. I couldn't get this working. Any help?

[fryem720]

BTW, for anyone who's interested, I didn't find a media library plugin for xmms, but I did find a stand-alone library that can organize your stuff, let's you create playlists, edit tags, and also let's you choose which media player you want to play stuff in directly from the media library. Here it is:

http://madman.sourceforge.net/

[weapon]

Just a quick tip for people using Grip /Lame, I thought i woild Post my settings for lame (to install lame: yum install lame) -vbr-new -b 96 -q 0 %w %m --replaygain-accurate (highest quality but on my 2600 ripping still takes longer than encoding)

Weapon

[rae]

This is the best movie player I have found for fc2 or fc3. The fc2 packages work on fc3 with very few dependencies. http://www.videolan.org/. VLC playes averything including most wmv files. Enjoy!!

rae

[alexhawdon]

Shadow Skill - mplayer is not 'shoddy', neither, by the same token is gcc.... please refer to 'gmplayer' for a gnomeified gui wrapper if you dislike the command line and keyboard-shortcuts approach.

[CrazednDazed]

I have a question about Rhythmbox and mp3 support.....I got the gstreamer-plugin-mp3 installed, and ran gst-register-0.8, but whenever I try to play an mp3 file it still says No support. Any idea where I can go next?

[imdeemvp]

I have a question about Rhythmbox and mp3 support.....I got the gstreamer-plugin-mp3 installed, and ran gst-register-0.8, but whenever I try to play an mp3 file it still says No support. Any idea where I can go next?
Where you able to load your mp3's at all? and this folder where you have your music was it use with windows media player? If so open folder and see if you have and pictures from artist album and delete them because they are not recognize in rythmbox.

[need2mod]

Did a yum install for xmms, looked like it installed successfully. I don't know where it is though, because typically I install something via yum and it is located somewhere in the Applications menu. Thanks.

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Installed: xmms-acme.i386 0:0.4.2-2 xmms-alarm.i386 0:0.3.6-1 xmms-cdread.i386 0:0.14-4.a xmms-crossfade.i386 0:0.3.8-2 xmms-faad2.i386 0:2.0-0.lvn.3.3 xmms-lirc.i386 0:1.4-4 xmms-modplug.i386 0:2.05-1 xmms-normalize.i386 0:0.7.6-0.lvn.8.3xmms-shn.i386 0:2.4.0-0.lvn.1.3 xmms-sid.i386 0:0.7.4-4 xmms-speex.i386 0:0.9.1-4 xmms-xosd.i386 0:2.2.14-1
Dependency Installed: libsamplerate.i386 0:0.1.2-1 libsidplay.i386 0:1.36.57-6 libsndfile.i386 0:1.0.11-1 madplay.i386 0:0.15.2-0.lvn.1.b.3 normalize.i386 0:0.7.6-0.lvn.8.3 xosd.i386 0:2.2.14-1
Complete!

[need2mod]

Did a yum install for xmms, looked like it installed successfully. I don't know where it is though, because typically I install something via yum and it is located somewhere in the Applications menu. Thanks.


No one responded, but that's okay... my mistake for over looking it, I was looking for "xmms" from the list. It is actually listed as "Audio Player". The little "xmms" logo is not easy to see under KDE, but more visible under GNOME. :p

[imdeemvp]

Yes, gnome lists xmms as audio player.....and for rythmbox it under music player.

[Marinmo]

Where you able to load your mp3's at all? and this folder where you have your music was it use with windows media player? If so open folder and see if you have and pictures from artist album and delete them because they are not recognize in rythmbox.
I did just the same as the poster you replied to - before I ran gst-register-0.8 MP3s would be loaded into xmms but not be played, now they're not even loaded. :( Anyone?

EDIT:
Installing xmms-mp3 from http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/3.92/i386/RPMS.testing/ did the trick. WARNING though; it's considered in "testing" stage and MAY break your system, but probably not. I got lucky. ;)

[CrazednDazed]

No, the mp3's do not load at all. I get the error message: 'There is no plugin installed to handle an MP3 file; /location/of/file. Is there a way I can point Rhythmbox to the plugin maybe?

Also:
I have grip installed on a seperate computer (FC1) and it rips fine. I installed lame, and got it to co-exist with grip, but it doesn't actually encode. It works, just not from grip... Thanks!

[CrazednDazed]

There is no error message in Grip when lame does not encode, it just doesn't happen.

[imdeemvp]

No, the mp3's do not load at all. I get the error message: 'There is no plugin installed to handle an MP3 file; /location/of/file. Is there a way I can point Rhythmbox to the plugin maybe?

Also:
I have grip installed on a seperate computer (FC1) and it rips fine. I installed lame, and got it to co-exist with grip, but it doesn't actually encode. It works, just not from grip... Thanks!
Did you install via yum:yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 if not try it and run the command for gstreamer again...log out and log in again.

[CrazednDazed]

I did not install via yum, I looked around on-line for the rpms. Does anyone know which repositories I could use for gstreamer-mp3 and lame? I'm still pretty new to using yum, so a brief how-to on how to get yum to look there would be appreciated too. Thanks!

[CrazednDazed]

forgot to mention that I need lame for Fedora Core 1

and gstreamer-mp3 for Fedora Core 3 (for Rhythmbox)

Two questions at once...

[CrazednDazed]

For the Fedora Core 3 Machine (64 bit):
I got gstreamer-plugins-mp3 installed, however rhythmbox still will not play mp3's. I get the same error message: 'There is no plugin installed to handle an MP3 file; /location/of/file.' I have un-installed and re-installed gstreamer-plugins-mp3 and rhythmbox a few times, with no change.

For Fedora Core 1:
I have both lame and grip installed and re-installed via yum. Grip will only rip the songs and does not seem to execute lame properly (lame works great on its own). Does anyone at least know a command for lame so I can encode an entire album at once, instead of having to do each song seperately?

Any help on either one of these questions would be greatly appreciated.... Thanks!

[imdeemvp]

CrazednDazed, for your amd 64 did you install the correct rpm stating it is for fedora 64? Now about your second question I dont quite get what you mean by encoding an entire album?

[CrazednDazed]

imdeemvp -
Yes, I used yum for the 64 bit installation. And when I say entire album, I mean entire directory, you know, so I don't have to type each song in, just the directory (and lame will encode all the songs within it).
Thanks again.

[tejas]

Nothing useful to add, but I'm bumping this to the top of the new posts, so you can find it easily.

Great job imdeemvp

[jgionet]

somebody should "sticky" this thread for a little while :p

[ninja_scroll]

Hi I have the following verison of xmms in FC3

======================================
Installed Packages
Name : xmms
Arch : i386
Version: 1.2.10
Release: 15.99_2.rhfc3.at
Size : 5.6 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A multimedia player for X which resembles Winamp.

=======================================

When I am trying to install the xmms - mp3 with yum I am getting the following message:

[root@localhost firefix-plugin]# yum install xmms-mp3 Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
atrpms-stable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 972/972
atrpms-sta: ################################################## 1199/1199
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xmms-mp3
Nothing to do


==============================


Any ideas??

[ninja_scroll]

I fix itmy mitake I didn';t set the correct repositories
Cheers

[smfinley]

For an alternative installation technique for multimedia applications which does not require the Livna repo (and thus avoids potential repository conflicts) see Fedora Core 4 Linux Installation Notes (http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html).

[DivineApathy]

Hi I have the following verison of xmms in FC3

======================================
Installed Packages
Name : xmms
Arch : i386
Version: 1.2.10
Release: 15.99_2.rhfc3.at
Size : 5.6 M
Repo : installed
Summary: A multimedia player for X which resembles Winamp.

=======================================

When I am trying to install the xmms - mp3 with yum I am getting the following message:

[root@localhost firefix-plugin]# yum install xmms-mp3 Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
atrpms-stable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
updates-re: ################################################## 972/972
atrpms-sta: ################################################## 1199/1199
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xmms-mp3
Nothing to do


==============================


Any ideas??

I didn't do it that way. For the mp3 support, google up...
xmms mp3 rpm
tird item (for me) is a site called Guru Labs, which should be:

http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/downloads.php

And what you do is download the rpm for the appropriate distro and install it. It should handle evrything no prob if you have xmms in default directories and such. I do, and it all went off without a hitch.

[teethlikelions]

i don't like totem quite as much as i like xine, because it didn't really work so great out of the box, so i uninstalled totem (it was my default), but nothing has filled its place as default
i have since taken the advice on this thread and installed totem-xine, but now i'm left with what seems like no default!
i shuffled around through the Configuration Editor, but was unabled to find a key that would put xine as my primary video player.

right now it looks like every key is set to totem-video-thumbnailer -s %s %u %o


maybe i'm an idiot, i don't know, but any help would be great

[teethlikelions]

any ideas?

[Deep]

greetings all, I followed this guide to set up my multi media for FC3 and i have run into a problem.
After i restart my computer my sound on xmms, and all my sound settings resets to zero, and i have to manually go into the settings and un mute everything.

also, totem sound works (after i reset the volume) but mplayer will not. i would like to use mplayer.

i am very new to linux, so any help with clear simple instructions would be great

[imdeemvp]

greetings all, I followed this guide to set up my multi media for FC3 and i have run into a problem.
After i restart my computer my sound on xmms, and all my sound settings resets to zero, and i have to manually go into the settings and un mute everything.

also, totem sound works (after i reset the volume) but mplayer will not. i would like to use mplayer.

i am very new to linux, so any help with clear simple instructions would be great
That has been a major problem in fc3 there is a setting in the volume control that you have to uncheck and after that it works fine. I cant recall which setting it is.....sorry :(

[imdeemvp]

imdeemvp -
Yes, I used yum for the 64 bit installation. And when I say entire album, I mean entire directory, you know, so I don't have to type each song in, just the directory (and lame will encode all the songs within it).
Thanks again.
Glad it help even for your amd64 version.

[ltam]

I'm not a newbie but I've never really gotten used to the pain of having to load all this extra stuff after a fresh install of fedora. I've tried following stanton-finley's instructions and I couldn't get it to work. I'm going to try your instructions here. Is there a place where I just have to follow explicit instructions for FC5? A step by step set of instructions where I don't have to think. Or is that just wishful thinking? I love Linux but hate all the after installation patching.

[dewangpm]

Dear imdeemvp:

To install the codecs for mplayer open termial become root and do the following:
Code:

$ wget ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2

Please change above link with following:
$ wget ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20060501.tar.bz2

dewang

[kissme1]

this is an amazing guide you have put up for newbies like me i really appreciate it i was able to successfully install the following apps with the help of this

ogle
streamtuner
grip
plugins for rhythmbox

but for the rest i got error here they are

when i type
yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-wma xmms-skins
i get this(i am just pasting the end lines which had errors
---> Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xmms
No Match for argument: xmms-skins
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Downloading header for xmms-mp3 to pack into transaction set.
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-16.fc5.rf 100% |=========================| 3.2 kB 00:00
---> Package xmms-mp3.i386 1:1.2.10-16.fc5.rf set to be updated
---> Downloading header for xmms-wma to pack into transaction set.
xmms-wma-1.0.5-3.fc5.rf.i 100% |=========================| 3.9 kB 00:00
---> Package xmms-wma.i386 0:1.0.5-3.fc5.rf set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 for package: xmms-mp3
--> Processing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 for package: xmms-wma
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 is needed by package xmms-mp3
Error: Missing Dependency: libxmms.so.1 is needed by package xmms-wma

when i try to install amarok via
yum install amarok
it gives me this
[root@localhost ~]# yum install amarok
Repository freshrpms is listed more than once in the configuration
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
dries [1/8]
livna [2/8]
macromedia [3/8]
greysector-all [4/8]
greysector-all-noarch [5/8]
freshrpms [6/8]
greysector [7/8]
core [8/8]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: amarok
Nothing to do

when i type
yum install kaffeine

it shows me this
--> Processing Dependency: libaa.so.1 for package: xine-lib
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: libaa.so.1 is needed by package xine-lib

when i try to use
yum install totem-xine
i get
[code]Error: Missing Dependency: libaa.so.1 is needed by package xine-lib[/code

any help in this regard would be great

[Deep]

i am currently running FC5 and i used this thread to install all my multi media, (xmms, mplayer, streamtuner, ect...). but i am having trouble getting my favorite radio station to work. there site was of little help to linux users, but i am wondering if i can get around that.

can anyone check this links and see if they can get it working?
the website is cfox.com and if you click on listen live, thats where the music is.
http://cfox.com/shared/player/?id=cfoxfm

i have also tried useing xmms, rhythmbox and streamtuner, but with no luck.

any help would e great,

thank you