MPEG video under Fedora 9

[John Munn]

There does seem to be confusion in multimedia in Fedora, but, that is 
because there are a lot of choices for players.  The second issue is 
that Fedora insists on packaging only free software.  So, after you 
select you player(s) you need to download the non-free codecs among 
which is mpg video and mp3 audio, etc.

I am successfully using xine, kaffein and vlc media players to play mpg 
& wmv, etc movies.  Also, flash movies in the browser (Youtube, et 
al).   I've used RH linux & Fedora since RH 5.2.  Currently in FC 9 & 
FireFox 3 I do not have the browser plugins working properly for wmv & 
mpg and I believe the problem lies with FireFox (haven't had time to 
debug it yet).  I've never been thrilled with totem and haven't spent 
the time to get it working right.

You can down load (using yum or your choice) the players from the normal 
repositories.  You need to get the mpg codecs and other non-free codecs 
from livna repository or other third party.  You can get many for 
mplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html .  Get xine 
codecs from livna.

John


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> Craig White wrote:
>
>   
>>> Could some kind soul state as briefly and clearly as possible
>>> what is required to play a .mpg video file under Fedora 9/KDE/Firefox?
>>>
>>> On my laptop I see from System Settings=>Advanced=>File Associations
>>> that I am given a choice for mpeg video files of
>>>         GXine Video Player
>>>         Gnome MPlayer
>>>         MPlayer
>>>         Movie Player
>>>         Kaffeine
>>>
>>> As a sample .mpg file I've taken
>>> /usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg .
>>>       
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>> do you have any third party repositories installed? Livna? Other?
>>     
>
> Yes. I have livna.repo enabled -
> but no others, except fedora-update .
>
>   
>> follow this thread from a few days ago...
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02561.html
>>
>> especially Rahul's answer...
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02571.html
>>     
>
> I read this, or rather the article
> <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html>
> which it pointed to, but did not find it much help.
>
> It seemed to be all about totem, which appears to be the application
> called "Movie Player" in the f=>Applications=>Multimedia menu .
>
> [Why it doesn't say that Movie Player means totem
> I can't imagine - to me it just seems part
> of the utter chaos that constitutes Fedora Multimedia.]
>
> In any case, I installed totem-xine as suggested
> and gave the command "totem-backend -b xine".
> Then I ran Movie Player and open the file I mentioned
> </usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg>,
> but all I saw was a meaningless mess of lines.
>
> So I would ask again - has anyone successfully played an MPEG video
> under Fedora-9?
> If so, could you tell me what application you used,
> and (if possible) any special codecs you installed.
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