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Old 07-24-2004, 01:51 AM   #1
mendiratta
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media player


i am not able to play *.mpeg as well as *.wmv video files on my RED HAT linux 9.0. help me in this regard
 
Old 07-24-2004, 02:04 AM   #2
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You've to install a descent player first. I highly recommend mplayer:

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/news.html

it plays basically... everything: mp3, avi, divx, mpg, mov, DVD/VCD, etc.

good luck!
 
Old 07-24-2004, 02:10 AM   #3
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mplayer, mozilla plugin

yeah...you want to get mplayer and the mozilla plugin for mplayer installed.

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/

This will probably be easiest to do if you have apt-get or yum installed to resolve any dependencies.

Last edited by ehawk; 07-24-2004 at 02:12 AM.
 
Old 07-24-2004, 03:22 AM   #4
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media player

as you told me to download from the site. but my linux is not able to recognise this .tar file. some countries only have access to these files or any person from any other country can use thes files.
 
Old 07-24-2004, 03:25 AM   #5
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hmmm, I'm not sure if I totally understand your question, but tar is a compressed file, just like zip or rar. Take a look here:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=45094

To see how to uncompress and install programs in Linux.
 
Old 07-24-2004, 05:11 AM   #6
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media player

Mr Ehawk,
i m not able to login to link specified by you. help me in this regard.
regards
Mendiratta
 
Old 07-24-2004, 05:31 AM   #7
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media player

Mr Megaman
sir while extracting this file, it is giving this sort of error.

tar : This does not look like a tar archive
tar : skipping to next header
tar : Archive contains obsolescent base -64 headers
tar : Error exit delayed from previous error.

what to do ?
 
Old 07-24-2004, 06:43 AM   #8
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Mr Megaman
i could extract the files, format was of .bz2, the file extension i was not getting while downloading the file. now i am trying to install , i will let you know after installing.

thanx
 
Old 07-24-2004, 07:18 AM   #9
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download page for mozilla mplayer-plugin

Strange....I am able to click the link in the post and get to that webpage

Here is another link, directly to the dowload page:

http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/download.html

There is an .rpm file there for Red Hat 9, as well as source code

If you still can't get into that webpage, just do a Google search for (Mozilla mplayer plugin) and you should find some pages to download an .rpm file.
 
Old 07-26-2004, 08:45 AM   #10
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media player

now i am able to run mplayer. but graphical display i m not able to get. as it was written in README file i downloaded the font file and essential file. but still not getting.
 
  


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