My movie trailers blues in fc3 SOLVED.

imdeemvp · #1 10th January 2005, 07:54 PM

My blues with multimedia in fc3 make me do so crazy stuff. I have installed every single plugin there is to watch movie trailers. Mplayer-plugin, realplayer plugin, quicktime, totem, etc. My blues with mplayer are the it would open in the browser and I would get no video in yahoo movies but in apple trailers I would get the video but no sound. Pulling my hair like you have no idea. Why...why....why (ok in mandrake but not in fedora...

).

WELL people it finally HIT ME like a BRICK coming down on my head. If you install just RealPlayer and you go to their movie trailer's site. Or here in ifilms. It WORKS LIKE A CHAMP!!!

So my suggestion is use realplayer and watch their movie trailer hassle free! Just try.... I hope it helps.

cscheng · #2 10th January 2005, 08:11 PM

Thanks for the info! Thank you so much!

imdeemvp · #3 12th January 2005, 07:21 AM

I has been the easiest way so far and for media streaming I still require the mplayer.

imdeemvp · #4 17th January 2005, 08:08 PM

Well I got mplayer working! I can see and hear sounds if i play the trailers in www.apple.com/trailers .
This thread may help others.

chiku31 · #5 30th January 2005, 06:41 AM

I had been playing with mplayer for quite a while, and finally get it working with all kind of streaming video(quivktime,realvideo,whatever windows media plays, etc....). If anyone still trying to figure how to make mplayer work, ask your question here and I might able to help you figure it out. I perfer to use mplayer for streaming videos and xine for reqular play. Both mplayer and xine are great!

imdeemvp · #6 30th January 2005, 06:48 AM

Mplayer plug-in is now working for me too.

rathel · #7 1st February 2005, 06:47 AM

I was reading this thread and i didn't see a solution on how to get Quicktime Trailers working
i have installed both mplayer and mplayerplug-in via yum

imdeemvp · #8 1st February 2005, 08:21 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rathel

I was reading this thread and i didn't see a solution on how to get Quicktime Trailers working
i have installed both mplayer and mplayerplug-in via yum

First remove it via yum:

Code:

yum remove mplayer

and go here and follow the tutorial. It should work after that.

chiku31 · #9 2nd February 2005, 09:15 PM

Hey Rathel, make sure u have all the neccessary codecs for playing different kind of videos. Just unzip the codec packages to the codec directory. The directory is normally be at /usr/local/lib/win32 or it might be at usr/lib/win32. Just try both out.

rathel · #10 2nd February 2005, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chiku31

Hey Rathel, make sure u have all the neccessary codecs for playing different kind of videos. Just unzip the codec packages to the codec directory. The directory is normally be at /usr/local/lib/win32 or it might be at usr/lib/win32. Just try both out.

yeah i got it working by following this http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/
but i still can't play wmv files xine can though, so i guess i'll have to use xine

i don't like xine much

imdeemvp · #11 3rd February 2005, 02:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rathel

yeah i got it working by following this http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/
but i still can't play wmv files xine can though, so i guess i'll have to use xine

i don't like xine much

You can install totem if you are using repos:

Code:

yum install totem-xine

or

Code:

yum install kaffeine

which plays almost everything.

Shadow Skill · #12 3rd February 2005, 09:16 AM

Would just launching XP via vmware count as a solution? I figure if you can get at least win2k running with decent speed you can fire up vmware for that movie trailer. The sites I happen to visit are basically windows only when it comes to the free trailers so its a pain having to boot out of fc3 for the trailer.

jgionet · #13 3rd February 2005, 02:14 PM

when I tried to install the lame-libs I get:

rpm -Uvh lame-libs-3.96-1.i386.rpm
warning: lame-libs-3.96-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 75aa026a
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
file /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0.0.0 from install of lame-libs-3.96-1 conflicts with file from package lame-3.96.1-0.lvn.1.3

Any idea how to fix this? I'm following the instructions from fedoranews.org

thxs
-JG

Shadow Skill · #14 3rd February 2005, 07:34 PM

you need to download and install the gpg key for the place you got this RPM from, I would also uninstall the lame package from Livna and iinstall the Lame package from wherever you got the Lame-libs rpm that is conflicting.