Mandriva 2006 Video
 

I've seen lots of threads about playing Windows media files on Linux but I need specific instructions.
I have:
Compaq Evo Pentium 4 business machine
Linux Mandrake 2006, updated:confused:

I want to use Kaffine as my viewer.
I have Mplayer but I don't like the controls.
The Mandriva software control configuration will not download the Mozilla, Firefox developers files, incomplete file listed.

Main help I need is for Kaffine to start up and run the video when I click on the "video" link while using Firefox 1.5.0.1.
A good example is www.cnn.com videos, I need this to work.

Also Quicktime needs a Linux view.

Any specific, step by step help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Scott Nash http://images.linuxquestions.org/que...s/confused.gif

In fact, AFAIK, it doesn't matter if you use Kaffeine or Mplayer to view your videos, as far as the necessary codecs are installed. Although you explicitly state that you want to use Kaffeine, just bear with me until the end of my post because you will see some Mplayer links down below.

Make sure that alsa module and libvorbis are installed on your system. If not, go ahead and install them.

Then find the most recent versions of the followin and install them the same order as below to avoid dependency/conflict problems:

1. speex http://www.speex.org/
2. libtheora http://www.theora.org/
3. Win32-Codecs-all http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html
4. libxine http://xinehq.de/index.php/releases

Next, we will go with the necessary codecs for DVD playing. Mahe sure that sane, gawk, make and gcc are installed in your system.

Go to http://download.videolan.org/pub/libdvdcss/ and download the latest version. Assuming that you have downloaded the file to /home/your_user_name/downloads, go on as follows:

Now you must have all the codecs you need to play video files properly on your system. The final thing is to find mozilla plugin for kaffeine and install it on your system [mozilla plugin supports both mozilla and firefox]. Then you should be able to watch streaming video in Firefox.

If you want to go further and watch streaming video from Konqueror, please note that there is a bug in Debian-based distros that cause the system to crash when viewing streaming media from certain sites. Frankly I don't know if this is a bug of KDE or Debian based systems. To go back to our subject, I am not sure but kde-multimedia package provides integration of KDE and Konqueror.

Hope this helps.

Thank you chief_officer !
Just what I was looking for. I'll try to follow your instructions after I verify the suggested files are in place and clean up some of the mess I've made trying to do this on my own. Look for my subsequent posts later in the week.
I've got to learn all this Linux stuff, I've had enough Windows to last me a lifetime.
Thanks,
Scott Nash

Scott hi,

Check out this post also, which may help you if you run into some obvious problems:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=432298

Regards,
Tolga

If you are using Mandriva, you can get all the multimedia codecs and libdvdcss from the PLF repos. You just need to go to easyurpmi and follow the instructions to add the PLF repos. After that install xine-win32, win32-codecs and libdvdcss from the command line using urpmi or through a gui using rpmdrake (the software module in the Mandirva Control Center).

This was helpful to me:
http://www.mandrake.tips.4.free.fr/c...ation2006.html

In particular:
"Oh, for playback of various video formats, you may want to do, as root:
urpmi win32-codecs xine-win32 "

Also check out the resources configuration section on that page to set up urpmi

I can play most files in kaffeine now.
Heck, on my dual boot system windows xp plays horribly in full screen mode, very choppy video, havent been able to figure out a fix. So to view wmv files, I have to boot into linux :D

Using 2005 Limited Edition. I am having trouble with playing streaming video in Firefox. I have all from this post installed. Maybe I have too much going on? Below are my experiences at various websites.

cbsnews.com

uses gxine which works well for video and audio but does not play in the embedded window provided. Instead it opens a separate window to play.

cnn.com

uses a popup window w/ embedded mplayer plugin w/ good video but choppy audio. The video loops at the end. When I try to close the window after the video plays the window and the browser window both lockup while the audio of the video continues to loop.

entertainmenttonight.com

is like cnn but the popup window freezes everthing before the video starts.

msnbc.com

Won't play without IE or media player 10.

foxnews.com

opens a separate window across the top bar of which is written "Free Video Player-Mozilla Fire Fox". The embedded video plays but there is no sound.

abc.com

like foxnews but neither video nor audio plays

mtv.com

I get this "Unfortunately, Microsoft's Windows Media Player Plug-in for Unix does not support Windows DRM. If DRM support becomes available, MTV will develop a version of MTV Overdrive that works for your operating system". Think its going to happen?

bbc.com

opens a separate window and gives choice of Media Player or Realplayer. I chose Realplayer - that being installed. However, like in cbsnews.com described above, the words "gxine browser plugin" appears in the embedded screen but a separate xine window opens to play the stream, however, the stream doesn't play. I can close the popup windows without locking the browser, though. Why isn't the realplayer used instead of gxine?

Is there any way to control what plugin is used to play video or is it dependent on the type of stream and what plugin will play it or is this just a problem with Firefox?

Rock

Installing Mandriva One and Fedora5
 

Dear Linux Users, I need your assistance,

I have subscribed to the Linux Magazine for the trial issues. so far I have rceived 2 magaines and DVDs for Mandriva one and Fedora5. I have tried to install Mandriva one but I have not been successful. As the installation proceeds than it just cuts the insallation. On one particular time i had finished the installation, but the system failed to boot and it indicated that some lib* files could not be found. What could be the problem and how can you assist?

Coming to the Fedora DVD, I had installed one the other machine. After completing the installation successful, it can not initialise the updater or installer. It say that it cannot load the packages. What could be the problem and how can you assist?

I suggest you start a new thread in the Mandriva forums so that your question get more exposure. You could ask one of the moderators to move the post above to a new thread (click on "report" under your post and then write a message to the mods).