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 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
