I can't Play any media!!!

[rick3878894]

I just installed fedora 5 on my PC, I am kind of novice, I fell in love with RedHat 7.2 but that was at a school that i don't go to anymore and my copy of the install is corrupt, so i went with fedora. After installing it I added wine so that I could use an Internet radio program that I have come to love (I am just full of love) that you can not find for Linux. It (the program) records streaming radio as mp3 files. So far, so good, its all running smooth. Now this is wear I come across my problem, none, not one, of that media players that come with fedora will play any thing, not mp3, not wave, not anything and there are no error messages of any sort and the sound card works i checked. They (the media players) don't seem to read the file, they don't display the length of the file or any thing like that and some just open a file but don't display the name. This is stressing me out, does any know how to fix this or have any idea wear to start looking for a solution.

P.S. I suck at writing so if you don't under stand what i am saying then let me know so I can clarify.

[Skinney]

Fedora does not come with any multimedia support becouse of patent/policy issues... you just have to live with the fact that you can't get multimedia upon instalation... However! there are alternatives. I'd check out Stanton finley's guide or fedorafaq to get multimedia(and other) support

Stanton Finley FC5 guide: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html
Fedora Faq: www.fedorafaq.org

Good luck with the rest of your linux experience

[rick3878894]

You Sir are a good person, I had no idea that i didn't have any codecs.

[Skinney]

lol, i didn't either first time
Check out those guides and let me know if you get it working, if not i'll try to help