media player

mendiratta · 07-24-2004, 01:51 AM

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

Mega Man X · 07-24-2004, 02:04 AM

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!

ehawk · 07-24-2004, 02:10 AM

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.

mendiratta · 07-24-2004, 03:22 AM

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.

Mega Man X · 07-24-2004, 03:25 AM

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.

mendiratta · 07-24-2004, 05:11 AM

Mr Ehawk,
i m not able to login to link specified by you. help me in this regard.
regards
Mendiratta

mendiratta · 07-24-2004, 05:31 AM

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 ?

mendiratta · 07-24-2004, 06:43 AM

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

ehawk · 07-24-2004, 07:18 AM

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.

mendiratta · 07-26-2004, 08:45 AM

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.