On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 13:35 +0200, Leon Vergottini wrote: > I am looking for codecs so that I can play my AVI, and other audio > formats. What are you trying to play the files with? Totem, listed as "Movie Player" in the Gnome menus, will use the gstreamer plugins. If you set up the Livna repo [1] you can add the good, bad, and, ugly plugins for it. That'll increase that player's abilities. i.e. yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly Mplayer seems to handle more formats, and you can add a binary codec bundle downloaded from their website [2]. It's a tarball, pick the one for Linux, and you'd manually unpack it to one of the default locations. It's probably easier to yum install mplayer from the usual Fedora repos, and just use the codec tarball, rather than install everything from the tarballs on the mplayer site. The mplayer-gui package seems a bit dicey, I've often found the GUIfied version to crash playing files that the other command line version would play fine. Using something else for the GUI, such as gnome-mplayer, seemed much more reliable. Xine plays a lot of files, too. And if you install the xine-lib-extras-nonfree package from the Livna repo, it plays even more. And there's VLC. That plays a plethora of files, and includes a lot of codecs in its installation. Again, you can install that from the Livna repo. Mplayer's probably my preferred player, VLC my second choice. I haven't really tried any others. 1. Visit http://rpm.livna.org/ and follow their instructions 2. Visit http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html A listing of the packages on my system that would seem to be obviously related to the various players is below. There may be some other things that are used too, but yum should fetch them for you if the package is needed. gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-base gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-pulse gstreamer-plugins-flumpegdemux gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-python gstreamer-tools totem-gstreamer mplayer mplayer-gui xine xine-lib xine-lib-extras-nonfree xine-lib-pulseaudio vlc vlc-core -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
