some questions on playing media files

darksilver · #1 14th April 2005, 02:09 AM

1. Install mplayer is very difficult for newbies such as me, because of tons of dependency problems and seperated installation of main program, fonts, codec pack, and GUI. however, i have managed to download all the codec pack from mplayerhq.org. Therefor i am wondering whether these codec pack can be used for other media players such as helix player and realplayer. If can, how to configure.

2. I have installed realplayer since it is much easier to install than some most popular players e.g. mplayer and xine... But i don't know what other media fomat it is supported other than realmedia. Does it also support mpeg and windows media file? Is there additional codec pack for me to download?

3. If anyone knows any other choice besides mplayer and realplayer, which can be installed as easy as realplayer and can play as many media format as mplayer.

4. Also anywhere can download audio codec pack for xmms.

imdeemvp · #2 14th April 2005, 02:16 AM

Here is my personal multimedia how-to for fc3.

foolish · #3 14th April 2005, 07:20 AM

Installation of mplayer, or any other software, doesn't have to be hard if you do it the right way. There are tools to deal with the dependencies and downloading of packages for you.

Go to www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware and get the yum.conf from there and use it.

then do:

Code:

yum install mplayer mplayer-gui

And that's it, yum will download and install mplayer and everything else needed for mplayer to work.

AndyGreen · #4 14th April 2005, 08:04 AM

Foolish has some great advice to solve your problem, but just to be clear, yum is the answer to that whole Dependency Hell thing.

The third party yum repos contain all the packages you need for mplayer and other stuff in one place. Yum finds out what they have in there and matches it automatically to what mplayer and anything else pulled in needs, and downloads the necessary RPMs in one go and then installs them all for you, from one command. This frees you from wandering in the desert of the Internet looking for mysterious packages and feeling like there is no hope. The repo guys have done all the work for you and yum is the key to plugging into a new happy world of one-hit installation.

Realplayer is not a lot of bottle, follow foolish's instructions and then additionally solve your xmms mp3 lack by

yum install xmms-mp3

gkuhlen · #5 22nd May 2005, 06:59 PM

I ran the script and get the message that I dont have the XFree86-libs installed. I tried to yum install XFree86-libs and it gives me the following...

ed, not adding again
Repository dries already added, not adding again
Repository extras already added, not adding again
Repository flash already added, not adding again
Repository freshrpms already added, not adding again
Setting up Install Process
Setting up Repos
livna-stable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
livna-unstable 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
updates-released 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
livna-testing 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
base 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
extras 100% |=========================| 951 B 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
livna-stab: ################################################## 183/183
livna-unst: ################################################## 62/62
updates-re: ################################################## 884/884
livna-test: ################################################## 52/52
base : ################################################## 2622/2622
extras : ################################################## 893/893
No Match for argument: XFree86-libs
Nothing to do

Where can I get these libs? I am having problems watching mpeg's when I click on one I get a player open then close right away. If I download it in Limewire, I can view it as it's downloading

AndyGreen · #6 22nd May 2005, 07:22 PM

XFree86-libs was replaced by xorg-x11-libs. What gave you the idea that you needed XFree86-libs? Sounds like whatever is responsible is out of date and intended for an older version of FC or not intended for FC at all.

Maverick-23feb · #7 21st June 2005, 06:16 AM

I installed everthing as per the instruction...But still my mplayer would not play mpg files :-( . I get fatal error (ps: attached snapshot.png)

Maverick-23feb · #8 22nd June 2005, 10:54 AM

somemore files attached if it might help...