Hi,

I just transfered all my videos from my Windows computer. And cannot play any of them. I assume I will have to get another video player other than the Helix that comes with FC3. And the codecs too. But where do I start?

There are many video players for linux including Xine and Mplayer. They both have most of the codecs you will need. As far as ease of install I personally have had better luck with mplayer which can be found here --> http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html I would go to the site and read up on the installation, all the tools/codecs you will need are available there.
fyi...xine is available here --> http://xinehq.de/ if you decide to go that route.

best of luck.

linux_terror

You may just need to locate the codecs. There are two players that usually come with linux called 'xine' and 'mplayer'

When Helix doesn't play a video, does it say what codec it needed. If not use the 'file' command. It may tell you in the description of the file.

Thanks for the help everyone. But it appears that mplayer is not available for Fedora Core 3 RPM yet. I am a supernewbie who only knows how to install prepared RPMs.

If you notice, the links above are for the FC3 rpms :P

linux_terror

it's better to compile mplayer by yourself.

it is really easy.

use tar -xvzf <filename>.tar.gz
to uncompress a tar.gz file.
(if it is a <filename>.tar.bz2
do bunzip2 <filename>.tar.bz2
and then tar -xvf <filename>.tar)

then enter mplayer directory and type less INSTALL to read the file that refers to installations.

download the codecs, and uncompress them in the same way.

put the codecs in /usr/local/share/codecs or something like that, (it's all written in the INSTALL file).

then go to MPlayers directory again and type ./configure --enable-gui
then type make,
and then as root type make install.
download some Skins for the gui uncompress them and place the folders in /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin
rename one of the Skin folders to default, or make a soft link.
e.x.
ln -s /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/Blue /usr/local/share/mplayer/Skin/default

download a font uncompress it and place one of the containing folders to /usr/local/share/mplayer/font

thats all.

use gmplayer for the gui player
or mplayer for text-based player

I went to the link you gave me, and then went to Downloads. Click on US. They forwarded me to the link below.

http://luna.cs.ccsu.edu/dominik/mpla...loads-cvs.html

I went here, all I could find was FC1 and 2.

I never succeed any installation of non-RPMs. Except for Firefox. I always get an error during the './configure' part. (Firefox did not have to ./configure.) I don't know what I did wrong. I followed the newbie guide perfectly. 1. tar -xvzf file.tar.gz or j if bz2. 2. cd to extracted directory. 3. ./configure

That is where I always get an error.

what error?

intercodes posted the rpm list, i just saw the filenames stamped with FC3, didn't follow the links, sorry for the confusion.

linux_terror