Hello!

I am new to linux and I have just gotten my I386 version of Fedora 5 working pretty well, however, I have alot of video files in avi, mpeg, divx etc, basically all the windows formats and I cant get them to play, I downloaded VLC Via Yum and it installed all the dependencies and such and that is not working the player works but it wont play what I need. I also installed Mplayer and as root moved all of its codecs files where it said and it will not play them also. I fear I am missing something very simple. Another issue I have been having is installing Divx. I su to root and run the install.sh file and I cant get past the EULA all it says is End. Anyone that could offer help would be greatly appreciated. I dont know if I need to convert them to a useable format of if theres an rpm or a tar gz out there that will give me what I need to play them as is.

Thank you again for your time and your help!

Becca

I dont want to clutter the forums so I thought Id add this as well. I tried to install Mpegtv and it ran for about 2 seconds then the video froze. I had to force quit the application and now I have no sound at all. Xmms is giving me an error that something may be blocking the sound card I ran the process monitor and found a refrence to mpeg tv

Bunny 3588 0.0 0.0 3912 680 pts/1 R+ 03:25 0:00 grep mpegtv


thats us ps aux |grep mepgtv


well I tried to kill it by its id and it says that it doesnt exist.

Could someone please help me with this to?

Thank you!

Becca Bunny

Take a look here for a possible solution to your problem.

Mpeg files now work on Totem! Thank you so much!!!! Now onto AVI, and WMV and other windows formats.

Thank you!

Becca Bunny

I found this helpful: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...ion_notes.html

Thank you very much for that link. Most of my video files are working now but I am still having trouble with AVI and ASF formats. I can hear them playing in Xine but there is no video. In Mplayer it says it cannot read the format. It all seems to be around an xvid and divx codec. Ive tried installing the xvid codec and that didnt work I also tried to download and run the Divx codec from the divx website but all I got was the liscense agreement in terminal and it said <end> and would not go on. Id very much appreciate any more help or ideas anyone has as Im so very close to having it fully functional

Thank you very much !


Becca Bunny

I am just sharing what someone else shared with me.

I thought that after setting up like in the link that avi files worked for me. I could be wrong as I don't mess with video files a whole lot. Is it just playing audio but no video on all the avi files or just one or two?

After looking at it it seems no AVI files or Asf file will play but its about split down the middle that I hear audio some of them just freeze. Thank you very much for the help scorpio as that link got me almost all the way. This is a weird issue because I've been downloading libs and codecs but nothing seems to be working.

Thank you!

Becca Bunny