Need help for playing videos woth Totem [SOLVED]

[Erich2]

Hello

I am a new (and satisfied!) fedora 7 user, but I have a problem for playing videos with Totem. Mainly .wmv, .mpeg and .avi formats are not recognized.
What additionnal tools should I install for having it running satisfactory ?

Thank you

Erich

[hermouche]

Hy,

The two MP3 players rhythmbox and Totem (movie player) use the gstreamer engine and installing gstreamer-plugins-ugly will enable mp3-playback for both.
This is the code for installing the plugin: yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
In order for Totem (movie player) to read video we should install also this code:
yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg

Edit:
Video players:
mplayer, VideoLAN Client (vlc) and Xine, all which may provide playback of some video formats that totem does not.
The code for these tree video player is:
yum install mplayer vlc xine

Hope it helps

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[Erich2]

thanks for you help Hermouche

I vave tried both commands in a terminal, but without success :

[root@localhost ~]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-ffmpeg
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]#

If I have e look to my package installer, these items are not listed for intallation, neither vlc

Thanks for your answer

Eric

[RJFUatHOME]

You have to install the livna repo first.

You can find the rpm that'll install the repo stuff here:

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/

It's on the front page, install the rpm for your version then do the yum commands he listed again.

[hermouche]

Originally Posted by RJFUatHOME

You have to install the livna repo first.

You can find the rpm that'll install the repo stuff here:

http://rpm.livna.org/rlowiki/

It's on the front page, install the rpm for your version then do the yum commands he listed again.

Oh yes RJFUatHOME,
Forgot to say it and to give the path, well i thought that it was obvious, anyway this is the code:

code:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

then just after follow what we have said before

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[Dan]

Moved to software.

Thanks Friedchips!


Dan

[Erich2]

OK all running satisfactory now!
I did'nt need to install other video players.
Thanks a lot for your help

Eric

[Dan]

OK. Marked [SOLVED] and thread closed.