Gene, Thanks for the mplayer link. It installed great and runs OK, but it unfortunately does not cope with Windows Media files. Jonas, The xine rpm files were great - installed with so much ease compared to previous. I guess I'm too used to windows installing from a setup file! Anyway, tried to access the Windows Media files and... On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 14:39, Jonas Rosenstok wrote: > Hi Neil, > > I also had some problems installing Xine when I downloaded it from > xine.sourceforge.net. However, after asking for help on the xine mailing > list a helpful soul told me to get the redhat 8.0 RPM for xine from > http://freshrpms.net which turned out to work quite well. You can get > the required packages from there aswel, such as aalib 1.2rc4 I think, > and the install also wants to install glut or glub or something which is > on CD 3 of RH8. You have to install the xine-libs rpm first and then the > xine.rpm > I am quite happy with xine right now. It plays my divx movies very well. > Hope you experience the same soon! > > > > > Subject: > > Re: Starting xine > > From: > > Neil Loffhagen <neil@c-w-services.co.uk> > > Date: > > 24 Oct 2002 10:04:30 +0100 > > To: > > psyche-list@redhat.com > > > > > >Hi, > > > >I've got a copy of Xine from: > >http://xine.sourceforge.net/index.php?resource=4&action=default > >Tried to install it, but as someone not too familiar with Linux things > >yet, have not done so successfully. As when I try to install the gnome > >bit it complains that some libraries are not available. I'm sure if I > >spent the time reading all the help files it could be done. > > > >Is there another player that will play Windows Media files? There are a > >couple of web sites that only have Windows Media files for things I'd > >like to be able to view and hear on my Redhat 8.0 laptop. > > > >If I'm not mistaken xine was included with redhat 7.3, but is not > >included in 8.0. Anyone know the reason for this? > > > >Thanks for any help. > > > >Neil. > > > >On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 21:54, Jesse Keating wrote: > > > > > >>On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:49:43 -0400 (EDT) > >>Robert Fausey <fausey@Princeton.EDU> wrote: > >> > >># I am not able to start xine, I am getting the following error: > >># > >># This is xine (X11 gui) - a free video player v0.9.8 > >># (c) 2000, 2001 by G. Bartsch and the xine project team. > >># Built with xine library 0.9.8 [Thu 14 Mar 2002 10:35:25]-[gcc > >># version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat Linux 7.2 2.96-107)]-[Linux > >># 2.4.9-21smp i686]. Found xine library version: 0.9.8 (0.9.8). > >> > >>Where did you get this xine from? > >> > >>-- > >>Jesse Keating > >>j2Solutions.net > >>Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) > >> > >>Was I helpful? Let others know: > >> http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating > >> > >> > >> > >>-- > >>Psyche-list mailing list > >>Psyche-list@redhat.com > >>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list > >> > >> > > > > > > -- > Psyche-list mailing list > Psyche-list@redhat.com > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Thanks, Neil 07973 206168 mailto:neil@c-w-services.co.uk http://www.c-w-services.co.uk -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
