Hi,


where can I install Mplayer from for Fedorcore 8

Cheers

Here's a useful resource for you: http://www.fedoraguide.info/index.php/Main_Page

I go with fedorafaq.org for these kind of things. The key is that you need to add the linva repository to your list. I don't know what all that ominous looking priority configuration is, I for one just trust them... but you have been warned.

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#installsoftware

After that you should be able to install it through Applications - Add/Remove or by opening a terminal window and typing:

su
yum install mplayer gmplayer

gmplayer is the graphical frontend. You probably want that too.

Nexus was faster.

If you use the guide he posted, make sure you correct the line for the linva repository, since this is for fedora-7. You will want to add the repository for fedora-8. Everything else should be fine.

Am I missing something

It says it's installed sucessfully but I cannot run it or even from the command promt Mplayer doesnt exist.

thanks for the help

i have the lavia repo ok

Doug

Did you install the graphical frontend as referenced by oskar? Also, are you typing mplayer not Mplayer on the commandline?

OK I see a picture but now get an error
[AO alsa]unalble to find find simple control 'PCM 0'

I like linux and it's getting better but with this media error stuff i see why the majority stick with windows

arghhhhhhhh!!

Cheers peeps

Doug

What some people manage to get themselves into

If that causes you sleepless nights, maybe you would be better off trying a distribution that has multimedia codecs installed by default like Ubuntu Gutsy or PClinuxOS.

I love Fedora, but it's always uttermost cutting edge... They push their releases very early. It is stable enough for me, but if you have no experience with basic troubleshooting, you'd be better off by either staying one release behind... at least for a couple of months until all the major bugs are definitively gone.

Not that this is looks like a bug.
Really, before you give up on something as mundane as this, try another distribution.

None of my major problems is, after using winblows for years and years only in the past 12 months have I decided to venture into the linux, i still have residual thought process's relating to windows.

If something doesn't work in windows, because everything is so messy it used to take me hours and hours to fix, so I get hot under the collar, this scenario is a classic windows numpty trying to force linux into a windows state of mind.

Needless to say I went away had a drink came back, thought about it logically and within 3 clicks it was working like a goodun.

My apologies and thanks again for all the help

It was actually telling me what was wrong, next time I will "STOP,LOOK,LISTEN,THINK PENGUIN"