Fedora 17 Upgrade...FINALLY!

Lailah lailahfsf at gmail.com
Sun Aug 5 20:23:26 UTC 2012


I think you should install EasyLife Fedora.  It installs códecs and
other stuff, is very useful.


Regards and hope this helps,
Lailah
El dom, 05-08-2012 a las 00:38 -0400, Eddie G. O'Connor Jr. escribió:

> Ok so FINALLY I've gone ahead and gotten my laptop upgraded to Fedora 
> 17! But I now am trying to play .mp4 / .flv/ .avi movies on it and 
> getting an error message telling me that there are plugins missing. I 
> also get error messages when I try to play mp3's. Even though I get 
> system sounds. Is there something I've missed? I've followed most of the 
> online forums which recommed installing something called RPM Fusion, but 
> when I did that and then tried the Movie Player again I got the same 
> window now telling me that there's an ASF demuxer missing........(sigh!) 
> why couldn't the building of these distros have included this stuff? I'm 
> getting tired of having to search for things that should be included 
> with an OS, and I'm not realy bashing or complaining to anyone in 
> particular, but it just seems to me that these things should be 
> "standard" no?....I mean whether it's a $82,000.00 or a $4,000.00 car 
> they BOTH come with a steering wheel, brakes, windows, headlights, 
> brake-lights a trunk, windshield wipers etc.....those things are 
> STANDARD.....why cannot these distros be the same?.....if it's a 
> licensig issue or some sort of violaton of some technology thing, why 
> can't someone create the substitute?.....kind of like how they came out 
> with LightSpark & GNash to replace Flash.....it's just kind of annoying 
> is all But any help anyone can give would be greatly appreciated! Thanks 
> In Advance....
> EGO II
> 
> Error From Video Player:
> Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file
> The following plugins are required: MPEG-4 AAC decoder
>                                                        H.264 decoder
> Do you want to search for these now?
> 
> Error from RhythmBox Media Player:
> Rhythmbox requires an additional plugin to decode this file
> The following plugin is required: MPEG-1 Layer 3 decoder
> Do you want to search for this now?
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