No Go Video

[JohnnyF]

I have tried everything I have read in Red Hat books, but I cannot get avi files to play on Fedora. They go well on Ubuntu - anyone have any advice? Thanks

[nonamedotc]

Did you try using mplayer to play avi files? For me, mplayer plays almost all formats flawlessly. You can install it from rpmfusion.

[JohnnyF]

Can you give me the order of commands in the terminal to access rpmfusion..I am quite new to this.. Thanks

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Extra note..if mplayer is Movie Player, I have it on my screen but it refuses to play files as it does not have appropriate codecs to run. Can't play mp3 files either

[nonamedotc]

Follow the instructions from this page - RPM fusion configuration to setup rpmfusion repository.

After you setup rpmfusion,

 yum install mplayer

And No, mplayer is NOT media player. That is totem. In order to play mp3,

 yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad

. This might help.

[JohnnyF]

Originally Posted by nonamedotc

Follow the instructions from this page - RPM fusion configuration to setup rpmfusion repository.

After you setup rpmfusion,

 yum install mplayer

And No, mplayer is NOT media player. That is totem. In order to play mp3,

 yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad

. This might help.

Your information was good thanks I hear sound the avi file plays BUT the picture is dark red - any ideas??
Thanks again - you are a whizz

[nonamedotc]

Originally Posted by JohnnyF

Your information was good thanks I hear sound the avi file plays BUT the picture is dark red - any ideas??
Thanks again - you are a whizz

I am not sure I follow. Do you see the video in red in totem or mplayer? I am not sure what would cause that at this time ...

[JohnnyF]

I open Movie Player select the avi file, then play. Sound in good but picture very dark and red in colour..puzzling

[mmix]

try vlc, it works fine on my F17.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261010

[nonamedotc]

Yes. VLC will also work. If you have mplayer installed already, try that and see if you like it. It is lighter (not a problem usually though).

[DBelton]

there is an easy way to install just about any audio/video codec you will need in Fedora.

install Autoplus, and run it. Then select the "Install Most Codecs" option.

http://www.dnmouse.org/autoten/

[JohnnyF]

Originally Posted by mmix

try vlc, it works fine on my F17.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=261010

Thanks everyone, vlc runs perfectly and so simple .. codecs from autoplus got my music going and now I can hear Vivaldi. (How do you people know all this stuff???) Thanks again John