Hi, > Now for the dreaded words mp3,mpeg etc. > Since Fedora Extra does not seem to hold the packages that will allow me > to read my music/video files properly, do I have to assume I will have > to build my own rpms? Or are they on the way out? I don't know if this is any help to you, but here's what I did: (1) Save the following as /etc/yum.repos.d/livna.repo: [livna] name=Livna.org Fedora Compatible Packages baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/$releasever/$basearch/RPMS.lvn gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 (2) Run rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY (3) Run yum install xmms-mp3 Now xmms can play MP3 files. (4) Run yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 Now rhythmbox and any other music player that uses gstreamer can play MP3 files. (5) Save the following as /etc/yum.repos.d/freshrpms.repo: [freshrpms] name=FreshRPMs Repository for Fedora $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 (6) Run rpm --import http://freshrpms.net/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.txt (7) Run yum install xine Now you can play encrypted DVDs with xine. I couldn't get totem to play DVDs correctly, neither with the gstreamer backend nor with the xine-lib one. If anyone knows of any tricks to make that work, I'd sure like to hear about it... Levin
