On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 05:16 +0000, santosh kumar wrote: > Hello friends, > I am a new user to fedora 3. > I can play neither mp3 songs nor videos (dat,mpeg,avi ....... > nothing). > It says "can't play....unknown error". > > Plz someone help me. > > Thanking u in advance. > san Well really you are most of the way there. XMMS was designed to play MP3's but redhat removed the plugin because it is not open source and protected by patents, which if enforced would cost them money. In order for you replace the plugin... go to rpm.livna.org and follow the instructions on setting up yum for whatever version of FC you are using. including the installation of the PGP key (don't worry it isn't hard). Once you have done that, open a terminal and type: yum install xmms-mp3 a few minutes later you will have to press the Y key to signify you really want to install the file after that you'll get a Success!! then just fire up XMMS and listen away for movies, I prefer mplayer (this van be got the same way just yum install mplayer\* (the * is to install the complete suite). I am pretty sure xine is availavle on yum too also some gstreamer plugins to allow helix player to work. Try them all (you can always delete the files later!) Good luck Scott
