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When trying to play music or videos I get movie player requires an additional plugin to decode this file. The following plugin is required MPEG-4 AAC decoder. Then it asks do you want to search so I say yeas and it doesn't find anything I tried putting new players on there and it never finds a mirror to use. I run fedora 17
Have you checked your package manager for mpeg libs or mpeg decoders? I do not know how Fedora's package manger (YUM?) works, but either it or Fedora's web site should have information about them. I had to add one or two of those packages for Debian to play a few varieties of media formats.
Oops. pavi_kanetkar beat me to it.
Last edited by Randicus Draco Albus; 02-19-2013 at 01:48 AM.
i tried this code
su -c 'yum update rhythmbox'
and got this
no match for argument: rhythmbox
no package rythmbox availabe
no packages marked for update
i also tried this code from the forum posted
yum install gstreamer* --exclude=*devel,*doc
and this is the final set of errors i got http://mirrors.ucr.ac.cr/fedora/rele...770f06b6c1cdd6
4e20cbc3348d5e7e335112f21736a66d233594-file lists.sqlite.bz2: [errno 14] curl#6- "couldnt resolve host"
trying other mirror
error: failure: repodata/d76e56939851770f06b6c1cdd64e20cdc3348d5e7e335112f21736a66d233594-
filelists.sqlite.bz2 from fedora [errorno 256] no more mirrors to try
i also tried another thing on the forum and tried downloading this and it has a small amount on the progress bar
and never gets any farther http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfr...-17.noarch.rpm'
The OP has to enable the rpmfusion repos & nonfree & the links the OP posted returned 404 not found.
The repos that need to be enabled are in the link I gave
su -
---- your root password when asked ----
mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
cd /To/The/Location/You/SAVED/THE FILE
tar -jxvf all-20110131.tar.bz2 --strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/
fedora will never host software that is breaking USA law ( patent and copyright enforcement and royalty issues)
it MUST be installed from third party software repos
install the rpmfusion repo
the needed files are in that repo as per the guide's instructions
Code:
su -
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
--- and this also ---
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
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