On Monday 27 December 2004 10:26 am, you wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 02:33 am, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > > Am Sa, den 25.12.2004 schrieb Positive Negative um 0:16: > > > apt-get install mplayer > > > > > > it works... now i still cant play DVD or MP3 > > > > > > i did all the apt-get install for mpeg dvd ect.... still nothing > > > > > > do i need to activate something? > > > > http://www.fedorafaq.org/#xmms-mp3 > > But the FAQ is wrong, as the suggestion doesn't work. At least on the > default yum.conf that FC3 installs, as the xmms-mp3 RPMs apparently aren't > in the default yum repositories--I tried. A google search on "Fedora Core 3 > mp3" yielded: > > > http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&forumid=35&thread >id=267844 Whoops! Sorry, that wasn't the link I used. Try http://www.linuxjunior.org/yabbse/index.php?board=12;action=display;threadid=10015;start=0#msg90841 Problem : XMMS doesn't play MP3's. Solution : Red Hat cannot legally distribute the MP3 codecs. Tun the following command as root : Code: rpm -ivh http://ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/fedora/linux/3/xmms/xmms-mp3-1.2.10-9.1.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm