My .vimrc is on its way to you in a separate email. Kenneth Lee writes: > 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 at braille.uwo.ca [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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- Janina Sajka, Chair Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina at freestandards.org Phone: +1 202.494.7040
