I was wondering if someone could help me.

I am a nooB to FC5 and I am trying to install DivX codecs and a media player to allow me to play .avi and .mpg files. I have tried numerous sources and looked for guides to do it, but can't seem to get it to work.

Can it be done in a GUI for start to finish? Like the GUI that Windows gives you when you run through and installation?

Has anyone got accurate links for downloads? and can the Totem media player play .avi's with the codecs installed?

Help appreciated.

Picco

For both Mplayer and any Xine based player:

Download this codec package in your home map(just click on it): http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...060611.tar.bz2
If Firefox downloaded it on your desktop, drag and drop it in your user's home map.

Become root (su)

mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/
mkdir /usr/lib/win32

tar xvfj all-20060611.tar.bz2
cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/
cp ./all-20060611/* /usr/lib/win32/

chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/*
chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32/*


PS: You could have find this using the search function at the top of this page.

PS PS: If you don't have either Xine or MPlayer, install it Xine like this:
yum install xine xine-lib xine-skins

For MPlayer you'll need to enable the FreshRPMS and Dries repos.

hi jens, thanks for that!!

i ran through all your instructions and the codecs installed fine. no errors.

However, i tried to install Xine by typing: yum install xine xine-lib xine-skins and I got this error:

Error: Cannot find a valid baseurl for repo: core.

Is this because my machine is not connected to the WWW. is there any way that i can download it and still use the same command?

Yum does indeed need an internet connection.
If it's possible, use someone else connection for this.

If that that's not possible, you'll need to install all RPMS and their dependencies manually.

Install them like this:
If you can connect this box with the internet, please do so.

PS: If you need more instructions, feel free to ask for them.

Hi jens,

I have downloaded (on my WinXP Home machine) both 'mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm' and 'mplayer-gui-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm' from Livna.

If i run
rpm -ivh mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm
and
rpm -ivh mplayer-gui-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm

Will that install without the requirement of an internet connection?

Sadly, I cannot get an internet connection on my FC5 box at present.

Thanks for your help so far.

Picco

You might also want a fonts and skins package(or perhaps it all comes with their mplayer-gui package, no idea... I never use Livna RPMS).
I can't really help with Livna packages since they're different(and incompatible! don't mix them) with the Dries and FreshRPMS repos (the ones I use).

Install them in one command, for me(using FreshRPMS and dries) this would be:

rpm -ivvh mplayer*.rpm mplayer-skins*.rpm mplayer-fonts*.rpm
It will tell you the missing dependencies in an error, get them as well and retry as above.

Dries and FreshRPMS (RPMforge) packages:
http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/index.html

hi again jens, i just tried the follwoing commands to try to install MPlayer from file in my home directory.......however, i get this set of errors:

WARNING: mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm: HEADER V3 DSA signature: NOKEY key id a109b1ec

error: Failed dependencies:
libXvMC.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm
libXvMCW.so.1 is needed by mplayer-1.0-0.46.pre8.lvn5.i386.rpm
..... and so on ......
theres quite a few of these type of files, then a 'fonts' error message at the bottom.

do you have any experiance over these types of error messages? what should I try next??

Also, i noticed you had posted up a link to http://dries.ulyssis.org/rpm/packages/index.html
do the files I have at present not suffice for the installation of MPlayer? or are you saying I should get them from elsewhere, notably, the repositories you have mentioned?

thanks for your help so far......