How to Play Video files in RedHat 9?
 

hi Friends,

How will I play video file formats in RedHat 9 . I tryied to put .dat file and try it in Kaboodle and Noatun . It is not working. Even in Noatun and kaboodle is not playing mp3 formats. I have to see movies in linux machine. :Pengy:

Can anybody help me to solve this problem. TV tuner card is also not working. wait :confused:
Before in my system RedHat8.0 that one also had the same problem. How will i solve this?

Some answers
 

Hi,

first RH9 has NO support for MP3 files at all, because of the unclear copyright questions and so on (you can find more about it on redhat.com).

For playing movies I am using Xine Player, which is pretty good for playing almost any movie format:
http://xine.sf.net

For MP3s I am using XMMS, which looks pretty much like WinAmp:
http://www.xmms.org


...hope this helps a bit.


cheers,
A08

http://mplayerhq.hu for movies AND mp3s....

I agree....

get mplayer for all your movie/dvd needs...

You need to get a patch from the XMMS site to play MP3 files.

How are you trying to view the output from your TV tuner card? I use xawtv, and it works pretty well. You should be able to just type it from a command prompt. There's a slightly nicer gui version you can get as well.

I have both xine and MPlayer. For what it's worth, I have a slight preference for xine - it seems less resource intensive. Both are rather rough, though.

Re: How to Play Video files in RedHat 9?
 

It seems like you're trying to play a VCD, just insert your CD and mount it (of course you have to previously have mplayer installed) and type at shell

mplayer -vcd 1

I am very much impressed by the replies I got. I never get an immediate reply from any community. Thank you for eveybody for an immediate reply. I start doing down load. I down loaded the MPlayer. It shows me a dependency peoblem. How will I install Mplayer in linux RH9?

You will have to post the error message so that we can help you...

cheers,
Chris

Hi friends,
Error!!! is

I tried to install this rpm mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5.i386.rpm for mplayer and xine-0.9.20-fr1.i386.rpm for xine and both shows me the dependancy problem. Which one I have to down load for smooth installation.

#rpm -i mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5.i386.rpm
warning: mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
lame is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
alsa-lib is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
aalib is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
lirc is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libdv is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
xvidcore is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libdvdread is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libaa.so.1 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libasound.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libdv.so.2 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libdvdread.so.3 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
liblirc_client.so.0 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libmp3lame.so.0 is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
libxvidcore.so is needed by mplayer-0.90-fr0.7rc5
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
#rpm -i xine-0.9.20-fr1.i386.rpm
warning: xine-0.9.20-fr1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
error: Failed dependencies:
xine-lib >= 1.0.0 is needed by xine-0.9.20-fr1
libaa.so.1 is needed by xine-0.9.20-fr1
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.3.2) is needed by xine-0.9.20-fr1
libxine.so.1 is needed by xine-0.9.20-fr1
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Waiting for a solution!!!!!

if you want mplayer on redhat do it the easiest way. download
apt from here and install it.

from the command line as root do this:

apt-get update

apt-get install mplayer


this should solve dependencies and it worked flawlessy on redhat 8.
you also dont have to worry about getting the skins, fonts, etc because it does it all unlike urpmi for drake. :)

SD

apt-get update

says cannot connect or server not found messages.... waht changes should be made to solve this?

hmmm, never had that issue. did you get the latest version of apt and did you check your connection?

Well, the following messages keep coming... what does no route found mean??? I use proxy to connect to the net... so is that causing some problem???

[root@ecl5 ashesh]# apt-get update
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386 release
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/os pkglist
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/os release
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/updates pkglist
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/updates release
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/freshrpms pkglist
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No route to host)
Err http://ayo.freshrpms.net redhat/8.0/i386/freshrpms release
Could not connect to ayo.freshrpms.net:80 (66.40.9.130). - connect (113 No rou

another way to install mplayer is to compile it from source.
few day ago i did that:
./configure
make
make install
and thats, all, it worked fine on first try :)

well that's just a simple networking error... can you get on that site in a web browser?