I am using mandriva 2007 free.I read in the vlc player download site that I should set my resources to contrib and plf .I tried in the software media manger but dont know how to do it.Right now i have the installation dvd and an update site as the only resources .how do i get contrib and plf? i saw the documentation of mandriva help and saw that main,contrib and plf are supposed to be there in the media manager .Have i gone wrong during installation?need help because i am not able to install vlc player

Visit this site http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ and follow the instructions. On page 2, be sure to select contrib and plf servers. When you get to page 3, copy the results.

Launch your favorite terminal, e.g. konsole or xterm

$ gedit seturpmi

Paste the results from page 3 and save.

$ chmod 744 seturpmi

$ su

# ./seturpmi

Sit back and let script run and set up the /etc/urpmi/urpmi.conf. When its done, you can then use the urpmi command to get packages you want. Can also use rpmdrake and browse the list of packages if your not sure of package name.

Hope this helps.

Dude,

vlc is a good video player but i'd point you to mplayer with the win32-codecs (this pkg is really goodand you can download from plg repo) to see almost videos without problem vlc has lot of problems lots codecs that's in it.

i have mplayer but dont have the gui that is all
but when i ple it through commands i still get thos ur comp is too slow and frame drop too high messages....

thanks a lot... i am using a intel pentium 4 processor 1.6 GHz
and 256 MB RAM.
the video card is actually Sis 300. but after installation the gui for login was not appearing
the screen would just go blank after...

as i told i have some update source enabled in software media manager .but whenver i download in the end i get some signature error or some error and not able to install the downloads .any genuine reason??...

Try setting up different source repositories. I often had problems with US sources then changed it UK. My thought was perhaps the US sources were to busy and were reaching connection limits. But that was just a guess on my part.
After changing to UK sources, haven't had an issues other then decrease in transfer speed.