Simon Bridge:
I have read both sites:
For more notes see:
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-fc6.html
http://www.fedorafaq.org (FC5 still but generally good.)
Both MediaPlayer and gstreamer-plugins-ugly were not installed through yum.
[root@localhost ~]# yum install mplayerplug-in
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
core 100% |=========================| 1.1 kB 00:00
updates [2/3]
updates 100% |=========================| 1.2 kB 00:00
extras [3/3]
extras 1.1 kB 00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: mplayerplug-in
Nothing to do
[root@localhost ~]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
core [1/3]
updates [2/3]
extras [3/3]
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: gstreamer-plugins-ugly
Nothing to do