kaffeine, amarok not playing in FC8

[shreedhan]

Hi
I installed Fedora 8 recently
I was glad to see kaffeine and amarok having xine installed
but later i found out they don't play mp3, avi, mpeg, wmv or any other files
I removed the xine and installed previous version of xine which was working fine on FC6
But that didn't work either
Is there any solution making xine working properly?

Thanks

[leigh123linux]

Try

su
rpm -i http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install amarok-extras-nonfree xine-lib-extras-nonfree

[forkbomb]

All those file formats you mentioned are proprietary. Being completely free and open source, Fedora doesn't distribute out-of-the-box support for those file formats. Fortunately, there are folks who maintain third-party repositories with the naughty stuff so we can have our cake and eat it to.

Leigh's got you set up. To clarify, those commands will add Livna (a third-party repository) to your yum configuration, and the second command uses yum to install some "naughty" codecs from Livna for playing those proprietary media formats.

EDIT: you may also want to take a gander at this page. It has lots of info on getting codecs working for a variety of media players. I'd also suggest trying VLC as your video/movie player - once you've enabled Livna, run yum install vlc. It's a great player.

[shreedhan]

Thanks to both of you
Both Kaffeine and Amarok are working fine now

[shreedhan]

Hi again
I have a problem again
Everything works fine except video
When I play a video song, I can clearly listen the audio, but it doesn't show any video
Instead it shows some colors like spectrum

Its not only problem with Kaffeine
Even Mplayer, VLC are giving same problem
i have ATI Radeon Xpress 200
Is that the problem because of this??

However Feodra 8 has automatically detected my ATI Radeon Xpress 200 in "Display"
Why is it not showing proper graphics when it has recognised it?

Please help me with this
Thanks again

[leigh123linux]

Originally Posted by shreedhan

Hi again
I have a problem again
Everything works fine except video
When I play a video song, I can clearly listen the audio, but it doesn't show any video
Instead it shows some colors like spectrum

Its not only problem with Kaffeine
Even Mplayer, VLC are giving same problem
i have ATI Radeon Xpress 200
Is that the problem because of this??

However Feodra 8 has automatically detected my ATI Radeon Xpress 200 in "Display"
Why is it not showing proper graphics when it has recognised it?

Please help me with this
Thanks again

Try

su
yum install kmod-fglrx



Then edit xorg.conf



su
gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf


Then add these sections.

Section "Extensions"
Option "Composite" "Enable"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AIGLX" "on"
EndSection

Section "DRI"
Mode 0666
EndSection

and reboot