Saturday, October 06, 2007

Multimedia in fedora core 7

To install 3rd party players which can play mp3 and other windows supported format like avi and dat etc., do following steps:
Before installing you should upgrade the repository
package with Third Party Repositories

# rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-7.rpm

Use yum with root as user in your command line. Yum can automatically download
and install a program and all of its dependencies.

Mp3 player:

1)xmms

yum install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-faad2

2) Audacious

yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree*

3)Rythmbox/Gstreamer

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad

4)Amorak
yum install amarok amarok-extras-nonfree

Real Player

Before installing realplayer,compact-libstdc++-33 libraries should be installed.
yum install compat-libstdc++-33.
Download RealPlayer 10.0 GOLD from: http://www.real.com/linux/.
rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm

Xine Multimedia Player

yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss

Mplayer

yum -y install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in

VLC

yum -y install videolan-client