Great, the mplayer is working. I checked my yum.conf and both the repos's Janina mentioned were there, but commented out. I gotta change my punctuation level when doing this kind of work. <g> A couple of questions though. Janina said these new repos would be in two different files, but I only have the yum.conf file. Do different flavors of linux configure yum differently? I am using fc2. Next, one of the comments in my yum.conf file said that removing the comments from the freshrpms might cause conflicts with fedora.us and I may need to comment out the fedora.us if I use freshrpms. Should I do this? Oh, what's the best setup when using speakup with vi? When I type speakup reads the status line. I turned off speakup with the speakup-NumEnter but this didn't seem the best solution. Anyway, mplayer started working after I did "yum update mplayer". Again, thanks to all. Ken -N5SWR -----Original Message----- From: speakup-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of David Bruzos Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 10:05 AM To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. Subject: Re: System-config-soundcard Hi Ken: I think you should try to get mplayer working. MPlayer is the best, most powerful audio/video player I have ever seen. The repos that Janina has given you are very good. Specially, the freshrpms.net repository has great mplayer rpms. One thing though, the pre-compiled mplayer is going to be a little slower than if you compile mplayer your self. However, it is a very good place to start. Also, when you compile mplayer your self you can add one of the codec packages from the mplayer home page (www.mplayerhq.hu) that will add lots of functionality to your install. With these codecs, you will be able to play windows media 9, quicktime 6, real audio 9, and a bunch of the other more obscure formats out there. Anyway, if you want a quick mp3/mp2/mp1 audio player, you can try to install a little program called "mpg321". After you have your yum repos configured, you should be able to just do: # yum install mpg321 MPG321 has no fw/rw/pause/etc controls, but it is great to play mp3's in the background and to convert to wave... David B. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.3 - Release Date: 11/26/2004
