playing movies on 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6

[jwholey]

Kind of a newbie here... Trying to play a video on fedora core 6 ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) and get the following messages. "Totem could not play 'fd://o'".
Apparently I don't have the correct codecs for the 64 bit version. Does anyone have a solution?

[funknor]

i would try xine instead, its the best video player that supports more formats

[DanMachado]

Maybe this could tell you something about:

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/releas...ultimedia.html

or you could copy paste below

su
echo -e "remove totem\n install totem-xine libdvdcss libdvdnav xine-lib-extras-nonfree\n run\n quit" | yum -y shell

[jwholey]

Ramasees,

Are you telling me that "echo -e "remove totem\n install totem-xine libdvdcss libdvdnav xine-lib-extras-nonfree\n run\n quit" | yum -y shell" would have gotten it working.
I went through a whole long process as outlined in the following link to get it working:
http://thebs413.blogspot.com/2006/12...and-media.html

Regards, Joe

[munna_dude]

Originally Posted by jwholey

Kind of a newbie here... Trying to play a video on fedora core 6 ( 2.6.20-1.2944.fc6) and get the following messages. "Totem could not play 'fd://o'".
Apparently I don't have the correct codecs for the 64 bit version. Does anyone have a solution?

why dont u try for this

# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
# yum install mencoder
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# cd /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
# man mencoder

cheers
munna

yes it would have been enough to play dvds all the other extra stuff is for wmv avi etc

[marcrblevins]

Did you read from FedoraFAQ from upper left weblink of this webpage?

[v00d00]

Originally Posted by munna_dude

why dont u try for this

# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-5.rpm
# yum install mencoder
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# cd /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
# man mencoder

cheers
munna

If you want it to work, make that.

$ su -
# rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
# yum install -y mplayer-gui
# yum install -y libdvdcss
# mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# cd /usr/local/lib/codecs/
# wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
# tar xvjf all-20061022.tar.bz2 .
# rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/6/mplayer-skins/mplayer-skins-1.8-1.noarch.rpm
# exit
$ gmplayer

Enjoy. It should play pretty much every format under the sun with codecs-all package installed.

For DVD's try installing VLC, as the menus work with VLC, but not with MPlayer.

[munna_dude]

Originally Posted by v00d00

For DVD's try installing VLC, as the menus work with VLC, but not with MPlayer.

yeah i did , but this is the error message

here is the same
[root@localhost ~]# chmod 777 /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50
[root@localhost ~]# vlc
vlc: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libavformat.so.50: cannot restore segment prot after reloc: Permission denied

how to sove this..?

thank you in advance