Williams, I've always been using Xine since FC1 'till 7 successfully. I got everyting from freshmeat.net and worked for me, all the plug-ins I would need as well as the needy ones for *.wmv essential-20061022.tar.bz2 which I downloaded from somewher (google it) and unpack on /usr/lib & rename it /usr/lib/win32. Since then, I install xine-lib, quicktime & essential-20061022.tar.bz2 and use kaffeine as a front end. It works nicer than xine itself with all kind of media cd's & DVD's. I even use it on my laptop to play all my collections of *.ogg files which by the way have better quality than mp3's. Hope this will help Sincerely, --- Dave Stevens <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Monday 14 April 2008 09:22:52 am William Case > wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I am running F8 and have downloaded and installed > both Xine and Mplayer. > > Xine( and totem I suppose) keeps taking over as > default. > > > > With previous Fedora versions I just uninstalled > Xine to get Mplayer > > working, however this time I thought I might try > to get Xine going. The > > front end gui looks attractive and Firefox about: > seems to be saying all > > the codecs are there. > > > > However, the first problem is there seems to be no > Xine help > > documentation. I am willing to do the exploratory > work and climb the > > learning curve. But before I begin and > fruitlessly waste a lot of time, > > if anyone has some tips, hints or experience using > one or the other of > > Xine or Mplayer, I would appreciate a short post. > > > > I know there is lots of info and previous posts on > this subject, but > > before I even go there, is it worth it? Or should > I just eliminate Xine > > and use Mplayer? > > > > -- > > Regards Bill > > I originally wanted to use mplayer for the wide > range of codecs implemented > and available but it was a pita. When kplayer came > along as a front end I > became quite happy with the combo. works for me. > > Dave > > -- > In modern fantasy (literary or governmental), > killing people is the usual > solution to the so-called war between good and evil. > My books are not > conceived in terms of such a war, and offer no > simple answers to simplistic > questions. > > -- Ursula K. LeGuin > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Linux user number 433512 "Free as in Freedom": http://counter.li.org ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ
