Hi
I'm having problem with playing media files in fedora 8.When i try to open video file using default media player eg : kaffeine player ,i got error message that it need some plugins in order to play the file.I'm using fedora 8 (KDE desktop).How will i able to play videos files in fedora 8.I heard about Xine media player, where i can find xine player rpm file for fedora 8.

Please help me.

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Hello,
I'm having problem with playing media file in fedora 8.When i try to open video file using default player like kaffeine it shows a error message that it requires plugins in order to play the video files.I'm using fedora 8 (KDE desktop).How can i play video file in fedora 8.I heard about free media player like Xine.Where can i get Xine media player rpm files for fedora 8.Shall i able to play video file using XIne ? I dont have any internet connection with fedora.I usually connect to the internet using windows only because i'm using dial up modem , i dont know how to configure it in fedora 8.

I look forward to receiving your reply.

Fedora doesn't have all video-codecs available by default (some legal thing), so you will need to download and install those missing codecs. Livna.org has support for so called non-free codecs, you will have to ad their repository data (http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm) to your yum installation to be bale to install and update them. Install the package with
su -c "rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm"

Google has some good infos stored at:
http://209.85.129.132/search?q=cache...=en&lr=lang_en

Note: the livna site is currently down for some unknown reason, but it was still running 2 weeks ago, so I guess this is just some maintenance or hardware problem - you probably have to wait a few days until it's up again.

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gergely89 there is ONLY one file on livna "libdvdccs"
see this how to
( but first fedora 8 has past END OF LIFE there are and will never be ANY MORE updates to 8 ever
Please install fedora 10
--please note that do to the fact fedora 8 is no longer supported, the yum repos may not work
and in FACT livina repo DOSE NOT --
see one of the fedora 9 or 10 pages on the link to install rpmfusion
fedora 8
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f8.html
install media players
http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...l#mediaplayers

well, the package manager still works for me and am still using FC5
It takes a while sometimes as I have a slow connection.
Somewhere there was a list of mirrors have been using them ever since.
It probably just needs libdvdcss

livina won't and for fedora 5 there have been NO updates in over 5 years
true a few of the 5 year old mirrors may still be up , but have fun finding one

I think you just need to install VLC in Fedora 8, if it's still available in the repository.

to install VLC see the link in post #5

can any one suggest how to install xine player without using yum repositories

In Fedora and openSuSE, I generally compile the latest version of Xine plugins from source to install it.

Another way would be to get the Xine RPMs from Livna or some similar location (just not the official Fedora repository) and install them using command-line.

hello,
I'm using fedora 8
I got following rpm files needed for xine

xine-0.99.5-4.fc8.i386.rpm
xine-lib-1.1.16.1-16.fc8.i386.rpm
xine-lib-moles-1.1.15-1.fc8.i386.rpm
libmodplug-0.8.4-2.fc8.i386.rpm
libmad-0.15.1b-4.fc8.i386.rpm
libfame-0.9.1-5.fc8.i386.rpm
libdvdcss-1.2.10-5.fc8.i386.rpm
libcaca-0.99-0.3.beta11.fc8.i386.rpm
libmpcdec-1.2.6-3.fc8.i386.rpm
libXvMC-1.0.4-3.fc8.i386.rpm
lirc-0.8.2-2.fc8.i386.rpm
wavpack-4.50.1-2.fc8.i386.rpm

How could i install this rpm files using ./config command

hey illions check this link:

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html

For installing VLC, yes, it's the best way to go. And thanks for the link, divyashree. I had almost forgot about the dedicated VLC repo for Fedora. :P

you could download ALL the required rpm's then install them using rpm
or find ALL the source code for ALL the dependents and xine and build them

but i think YOUR FIRST problem to fix is this

Quote:

I usually connect to the internet using windows only because i'm using dial up modem , i dont know how to configure it in fedora 8.

can you post the output of
to see if it is a "Winmodem "( MS Windows ONLY SOFTWARE run modem) or not .
if it is a winmodem -- that would be a problem .Requiring you to have to build
"slmodem " software

if a reg pci card modem them "system-config-network" should work.

you might need to turn on "Network-Manager" and turn off " Network" in the system services. I think that Network-Manager was off by default in fedora 8 and Network is on by default for fedora 8 .