There does seem to be confusion in multimedia in Fedora, but, that is
because there are a lot of choices for players. The second issue is
that Fedora insists on packaging only free software. So, after you
select you player(s) you need to download the non-free codecs among
which is mpg video and mp3 audio, etc.
I am successfully using xine, kaffein and vlc media players to play mpg
& wmv, etc movies. Also, flash movies in the browser (Youtube, et
al). I've used RH linux & Fedora since RH 5.2. Currently in FC 9
& FireFox 3 I do not have the browser plugins working properly for
wmv & mpg and I believe the problem lies with FireFox (haven't had
time to debug it yet). I've never been thrilled with totem and haven't
spent the time to get it working right.
You can down load (using yum or your choice) the players from the
normal repositories. You need to get the mpg codecs and other non-free
codecs from livna repository or other third party. You can get many
for mplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
. Get xine codecs from livna.
John
Timothy Murphy wrote:
Craig White wrote:
Could some kind soul state as briefly and clearly as possible
what is required to play a .mpg video file under Fedora 9/KDE/Firefox?
On my laptop I see from System Settings=>Advanced=>File Associations
that I am given a choice for mpeg video files of
GXine Video Player
Gnome MPlayer
MPlayer
Movie Player
Kaffeine
As a sample .mpg file I've taken
/usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg .
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do you have any third party repositories installed? Livna? Other?
Yes. I have livna.repo enabled -
but no others, except fedora-update .
follow this thread from a few days ago...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02561.html
especially Rahul's answer...
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02571.html
I read this, or rather the article
<http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html>
which it pointed to, but did not find it much help.
It seemed to be all about totem, which appears to be the application
called "Movie Player" in the f=>Applications=>Multimedia menu .
[Why it doesn't say that Movie Player means totem
I can't imagine - to me it just seems part
of the utter chaos that constitutes Fedora Multimedia.]
In any case, I installed totem-xine as suggested
and gave the command "totem-backend -b xine".
Then I ran Movie Player and open the file I mentioned
</usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg>,
but all I saw was a meaningless mess of lines.
So I would ask again - has anyone successfully played an MPEG video
under Fedora-9?
If so, could you tell me what application you used,
and (if possible) any special codecs you installed.
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