Does it contain all the codecs and everything?
Or how do I get VIdeoLAN working?

It installed in /usr/bin/vlc for me, but I installed it through yum, rather than downloading it from their website. I didn't get any errors. Try ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/dag/fedo...c3.rf.i386.rpm this rpm, and install it using rpm -Uvh videolan-client-0.8.1-1.1.fc3.rf.i386.rpm and see what you get.

I installed RealPlayer 10 and Helix and it didnt have any codecs for MPG or AVI or WMV... or anything... how do i acquire these codecs?

So any ideas anyone for codecs?

Essential codecs (from mplayerhq.hu)
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...041107.tar.bz2

After I install these codecs, are they only designed for use with mplayer or will they work with other media players also?

Xine seems the simplest to use under Slack anyway. You need to download libdvdcss.

I tried VLC and downloaded the http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html from that site and extracted it all just like it said and then ran


[root@phorsource Desktop]# rpm -U vlc/* --force
warning: vlc/a52dec-0.7.4-7.1.fc3.fr.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID e42d547b
warning: package libmodplug = 1:0.7-2vlc was already added, replacing with libmodplug <= 1:0.7-3vlc
warning: package libpostproc = 1.0-0.11.pre5.1.fc2.fr was already added, replacing with libpostproc <= 1.0-0.12.20041025.1.fc3.fr
warning: package vcdimager = 0.7.20-1.1.vlc was already added, replacing with vcdimager <= 0.7.20-3
error: Failed dependencies:
libcdio.so.0 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by cdinfo-0.71-0.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by libvcd-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2 is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libiso9660.so.2(ISO9660_2) is needed by vcdimager-0.7.20-3.i386
libcdio.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libcdio.so.0(CDIO_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0 is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libiso9660.so.0(ISO9660_0) is needed by vcdimager-libvcd-0.7.20-1.1.vlc.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by vlc-0.8.1-1.i386
libGL.so.1 is needed by wxGTK-gl-2.4.2-5.1.fc3.fr.i386
Suggested resolutions:
xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-12.i386.rpm


and got all those error messages.. FOr the resolution it says to do libGL but I cant because of the NVIDIA drivers it said to run a command on that, it was a popular guide at LQ over installing NVIDIA drivers on FC3.... so what do i Do?

Did you try to install it using the other rpm like I suggested a few messages ago? It should work okay, and be a lot easier than the one offered on their website, and it shouldn't have the error messages.

tried got same message about nvidia thing

You may want to give Ogle a try. I have been using it with RH8 for the past 8 months or so and it is great.