Well as you probably all knwo theres like no media support with Fedora I managed to get XMMS playing Mp3s from using FedoraFaq.org but I am still in need of playing WMVs and MPGs and DVD movies.... I have tried downloading some codecs and such but I havent had any luck at all with any of them... I dont really care what media player I use for videos as long as its easy to use, has a GUI, and works well...Im coming from Windows Media Player. I have tried Helix and Totem but niether worked Im using FedoraCore3 with all packages installed

The best player is MPlayer, supports all the formats you ask for, the codes are available from the site.

If you use KDE, I'd recommend KPlayer, which is a KDE frontend for MPlayer.

Also theirs a Firefox plugin which allows it to support embedded video on websites.

the thing i dont like about MPlayer is dont u need to play the videos from the terminal like theres no GUI front end to make it very easy? or is there? ive only seen it when typign in mplayer along with the file i want to play and all that crap

MPlayer does have a GUI front-end, its even skin-able ( Skins available from the website ) You can start it from the command line, but it isn't required.

mplayer own front end is gmplayer. running videos through a teminal is so so so easy... it takes much longer to play them through a waste-of-time gui.

To install the codecs ...

Navigate to the directory:
/usr/lib
Create the directory:
win32
(/usr/lib/win32)

Get the codecs from "MPlayer" website
( I think what you want is "essential codecs package")

Untar it, enter the directory, and move everything to /usr/lib/win32

MPlayer, Xine, and many other players will find them here.

As Leonscape said, I've been using Mplayer with the KPlayer frontend
with good success.

There are other frontends available, use the "related projects" link
on the MPlayer site for more info.

Videolan is good too.

you can get the rpms for it from here
http://heidelberg.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=660

Videolan's not good. It's excellent. And unlike Mplayer, it supports DVD Menus. Playing a DVD without the menus is annoying, especially if it's got really cool menus (like on the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon DVD).

Mmmmm.. mplayer on terminal is good!

I dont have my Linux box on but is it pretty much straight forward after install? just open media file and let it go? Also does it have WMV support and are all of the nesecarry codecs for the other formats included?

Yes.
Yes.
The codecs can also be downloaded from the site. essential codes, and binary codecs are the two sets that you need, and they cover just about everthing.

alright I will try this videolan thing in the morning... Hope it all works well!

wait are you referring to mplayer?

He was referring to mplayer. Videolan Client (VLC) comes with all the codecs you'll need already. It supports WMV. According to its website, it supports WMV 1/2, but not 3. I think WMV3, is the WMP9 format. The only program I've ever heard that supports that is WMP.
Go here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/features.html for a list of supported formats for VLC

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -U vlc/* --force
warning: vlc/a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e 42d547b
warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added, replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
warning: package vcdimager = 0.7.20-1.1.vlc was already added, replacing with vcdimager <= 0.7.20-3
error: Failed dependencies:
libcdio.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0(ISO9660_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
[root@localhost ~]# cd /root/vlc
[root@localhost vlc]# rpm -U * --force
warning: a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added, replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
warning: package vcdimager = 0.7.20-1.1.vlc was already added, replacing with vcdimager <= 0.7.20-3
error: Failed dependencies:
libcdio.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0(ISO9660_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386

So I downloaded it and extracted it and ran the command as stated, and I received all of the error messages as listed above, but where did it install to? I looked around and dont see any VLC or VideoLAN in /usr/bin or other places ive looked. Where is it locaed after all of the RPMs are installed? Also are the warnings and errors anything to worry about

try www.real.com/linux

they post realplayer 10 it's cool