How play MP3's and DVD's in Fedora

[imdeemvp]

It is time for me to update my multimedia how-to. I have not done it since fc3. This will teach you how to install mplayer, videolan, totem, xmms, amarok, streamtuner, realplayer and more. All plug-ins and dependencies will be installed via yum. Screenshots provided.

TIP: use copy and paste
I am using 2 repositories: Livna and Freshrpms. To install the repos open terminal, become root and run:

rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/5/freshrpms-release/freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc.noarch.rpm

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm

NO need for gpg key it will ask you to accept when using repo for the first time.

DVD Players:
Mplayer is my favorite dvd player so as root run:

yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mplayer-gui

The mplayerplug-in will allow you to see movie trailers from www.apple.com/trailers

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.

VideoLan is becoming a very popular player now. so for those of you who like it here it is:

yum -y install videolan-client

It should pick your default sound settings as it did with me. But if it does not go to Sound & Video > VideoLan Client once opened go to Settings arrow down to >preferences click on the >Audio arrow down to >output modules to >Audio output modules arrow down to your systems sound for example ALSA click on [save] and close.

Totem is a gnome player.
If you install totem by default you will need to remove:

rpm -e --nopeds totem

Now lets install totem-xine for your dvd playing needs:

yum -y install totem-xine

Ogle is another dvd player that can take care of your dvd needs.

yum -y install ogle

Kaffeine is a KDE dvd player. Some users like kaffeine becasue it can handle my formats.


MP3 Players:
XMMS is an mp3 player. In terminal run:

yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-wma xmms-skins

You can also add winamp presets to xmms.
Rhythmbox is another mp3 player and capable of stream media too. If you install by default just install the plug-in:

yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

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

AmaroK player:
AmaroK is a KDE player that requires KDE libraries to be install if you are using gnome. Open terminal and run:

yum -y install amarok

Streamtuner player:
Streamtuner is your stream media player that uses beep player and you can also use the same skins as xmms. Open terminal and run:

yum -y install streamtuner bmp-mp3 bmp-wma

RealPLayer for linux:
We all know what this player can do. Download player RPM package and install from terminal:

rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm

Want to rip your mp3's? if so install grip:

yum -y install grip

To be continue

[imdeemvp]

VidoeLan client now included in how-to see screenshot......

[ltam]

This is awesome!!!! Just what I asked for in another one of your threads. Excellent and thanks.

I had to mute one of the channels with alsamixer to get my soundblaster 5.1 to work. But when it worked, it worked great.

[imdeemvp]

This is awesome!!!! Just what I asked for in another one of your threads. Excellent and thanks.

Good to know it woked out for you.....

[ltam]

Actually, I thought it was working as all the different DVD options gave clear video. But I couldn't get audio. I just got static. This same sound card used to work with FC3. With FC5, I haven't been able to get it to work. Any ideas? It's a soundblaster 5.1. It works with Tvtime.

[stormproof]

I am new to fedora 5 and I would have to say you made me a happy camper! Thanks for the excellent post!!!!!!

[imdeemvp]

I am new to fedora 5 and I would have to say you made me a happy camper! Thanks for the excellent post!!!!!!

Hope made everything hassle free......

[cyclngleo]

Hi mate,

I've followed your setup but get this when executing the mplayer install.

[root@localhost ~]# yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mplayer-gui
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna [1/8]
core [2/8]
gst-0.10-apps [3/8]
updates [4/8]
freshrpms [5/8]
gst-0.10-deps [6/8]
extras [7/8]
gst-0.10-gst [8/8]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Package mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Package mplayer-skins.noarch 0:1.7-1.fc set to be updated
---> Package mplayerplug-in.i386 0:3.25-1.lvn5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 for package: mplayer-gui
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by package mplayer-gui

Any idea why?

Thank you.

[imdeemvp]

Add the freshrpms repo sometimes you have to combine both.....

[cyclngleo]

Hi,

Sorry I'm a newby to Linux and would aprreciate some more help on this topic. I have followed your guide step by step and have received the error message as shown in previous mail but I've run it again and the systems shows the following results.

Action:
rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp....fc.noarch.rpm
Result:
Retrieving http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrp....fc.noarch.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package freshrpms-release-1.1-1.fc is already installed
You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/root

Action:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
Result:
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package livna-release-5-4 is already installed

Action:
yum -y install mplayer mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mplayer-gui
Result:
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
livna [1/8]
livna 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
core [2/8]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
gst-0.10-apps [3/8]
gst-0.10-apps 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates [4/8]
updates 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
freshrpms [5/8]
http://ayo.si.freshrpms.net/fedora/l...ta/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] HTTP Error 404: Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 11:43:34 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.26 (Unix) Debian GNU/Linux PHP/4.1.2 mod_ssl/2.8.9 OpenSSL/0.9.6c
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Trying other mirror.
freshrpms 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
gst-0.10-deps [6/8]
gst-0.10-deps 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
extras [7/8]
extras 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
gst-0.10-gst [8/8]
gst-0.10-gst 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 155 kB 00:01
livna : ################################################## 412/412
Added 12 new packages, deleted 0 old in 1.95 seconds
primary.xml.gz 100% |=========================| 958 kB 00:03
extras : ################################################## 2670/2670
Added 93 new packages, deleted 334 old in 10.54 seconds
Parsing package install arguments
Resolving Dependencies
--> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
---> Package mplayer-fonts.noarch 0:1.1-3.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Package mplayer-gui.i386 0:1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 set to be updated
---> Package mplayer-skins.noarch 0:1.7-1.fc set to be updated
---> Package mplayerplug-in.i386 0:3.25-1.lvn5 set to be updated
--> Running transaction check
--> Processing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 for package: mplayer-gui
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: Missing Dependency: mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by package mplayer-gui

I thought that it might had to something with this file "mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386.rpm" so I did this
"rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386.rpm" and the result was
that:
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/m....lvn5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libavcodec.so.51 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libavformat.so.50 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libavutil.so.49 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libdirectfb-0.9.so.24 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libenca.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libfaac.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libfribidi.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
liblzo.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libmpcdec.so.3 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libopenal.so.0 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libpostproc.so.51 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
libxmms.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386
mplayer-fonts >= 1.1-0.lvn.2 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386

and then I did this:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/m....lvn5.i386.rpm

Result:
Retrieving http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/5/i386/m....lvn5.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
mplayer = 1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5 is needed by mplayer-gui-1.0-0.39.20060412.lvn5.i386

Thanks for your help.

[imdeemvp]

There must be something wrong with the repo and perhaps the dependencies are broken for the moment....

[ruxbo]

hi!
i've been looking around for a thread can't find one
is it possible to play mp3 files if they are in the network, windows xp box?
i can get to drag and drop them in xmms player they wouldn't paly and when i do the files info there's nothing in there the tags aren't there
i can play mp3 files within my fedora core 5
my file name is like (artist)_[album]-track#-title.mp3
is that too weird for a file name to be recognize by fedora?
my fc5 is installed within a vmware
i can read other files, jpg's txt's but not the mp3 why is that?
any ideas?
by the way i'm just days old with fedora core
i've been learning alot from this forum
thanks

[imdeemvp]

Some users are able to play their mp3's via their network. I personally have not done it. Dont have a network running or servers like some users here do.

[ruxbo]

Some users are able to play their mp3's via their network. I personally have not done it. Dont have a network running or servers like some users here do.

thanks! i'll try the network threads. thanks again!

[a2ms]

Hi!

I have a problem with my VLC.. since i updated my FC4 to FC5 the .avi and other types of video neither DVD play in the VLC... then i update it to version 0.8.4a with yum.. but still didn't worked

can you help me?