video and audio players in Suse-10.1 and Fedora Core-5
Friends,
1. I have installed suse 10 on my friend's system.1.By default xine and other players are present in the OS.But these players don't have plugins to support Windows (or proprietary) video formats.So how to get those plugins?Can we get them by YAST(automatic installation from net)??I heard that Win32(w32) codecs is needed for the default players to play the prop. formats;if so where we need to copy and install those w32 codecs?IS it available for each platform(like fc4/5 or Suse)?or is it that we need to copy the directory of w32 to somewhere in Linux for the players to run all the formats?? I also heard that if Xine engine is present all the other players can play any format using this engine--is it so??So in Suse what should we do to install this xine engine?? 2.Similarly for Fedora Core-5 i tried configuring the xine from tar ball. a)unzipping the tar ball using tar command b)./configure c)make d)make install It failed in the third step and i couldn't install.As of now there's no xine rpm available for FC5 and the older ones wont be able to run in FC5..So using yum i installed amarok but that also doesn't play the windows formats(mp3,avi,etc..).So using yum can i install any plugin for the players(available like helix,totem and the amarok now) so that they will run all video files.I installed xmms but that also has got some probs..Can i copy w32 codecs or install it in Linux so that the players will be able to play foriegn formats also??What to do for this??Using yum i wasn't able to install xine player and also when i gave: yum list available the output was so big that terminal couldn't hold everything... Please respond.. Gejoe Daniel |
edit: oops dubble post...
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This should work for both Xine and MPlayer.
All as root: mkdir /usr/local/lib/codecs/ mkdir /usr/lib/win32 wget http://www4.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...060501.tar.bz2 tar xvfj all-20060501.tar.bz2 cp ./all-20060501/* /usr/local/lib/codecs/ cp ./all-20060501/* /usr/lib/win32/ chmod 755 /usr/local/lib/codecs/* chmod 755 /usr/lib/win32/* Both Xine and MPlayer will now be able to play everything... Getting Xine and MPlayer: Don't use source code for apps like Xine and Mplayer. They're dependencies for other apps as well, so stick with RPMs. SUSE: I highly advice to use the SMART package manager instead of Yast. It will come with many extra sofware repos including Packman and Guru: http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-...=/System/smart Fedora: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...notes.html#Yum http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...otes.html#Xine http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...s.html#MPlayer XMMS with mp3 support: Install the xmms-mp3 package. |
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