MPEG video under Fedora 9

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 29 01:24:06 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 03:10 +0100, 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 .
> > ----
> > 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.
----
yum install \
mplayer \
mplayer-gui \
xvidcore \
xine \
mjpegtools-libs \
libmms \
xine-lib-extras-nonfree \
gnome-mplayer \
gxine-mozplugin \
gxine

start there

Craig




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