Fedora 8 Multimedia Support
Well It is that time again, Fedora 8 is out and looking pretty good so far, so listed below once again is how to get full multimedia support, here are some of the programs i had to install in order to get full functionality. Just remember the following steps all need to be done as user "root".
Step 1: Add the livna Repo
wget rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm ; rpm -ivh livna-release-8.rpm
Step 2: Add the Macromedia Repo
wget http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.no... ; rpm -ivh adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
Step 3: Install Multimedia Applications
yum -y remove totem totem-mozplugin;yum -y install totem-xine totem-xine-mozplugin libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay livdvdnav lsdvd xine-lib-extras-nonfree libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay flash-plugin libquicktime gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad
Step 4: Installing w32Codecs in order to play everything under the Sun.
wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm ; rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm
wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm; rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm
you should now have full multimedia and video support for all popular formats. If you experience any issue feel free to post a reply.
Comments
4 comments postedFedora 8 is looking pretty good so far. Thanks for sharing the following steps all need to be done as user "root".
Regards,
Aden Jeff
Hi,
Cool article, every thing is Ok except Arabic subtitles didn't appear correctly, i use totem instead of totem-xine because Arabic subtitles appear correctly when setting totem default encoding and font not as totem-xine.
Thanks
I will try installing the same Fedora 8 with your recommendations. I and see if it works equally well for my needs. Also i have updated the section above as i forgot to add libquicktime as an install argument also gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad. might help with multimedia suppor.
I tested the above installation without the totem-xine package and noticed that when attempting to play some avi files it would not work. Due to the fact that it needs certain codecs that are available in the win32 codecs package. By installing with the totem-xine everything seems to work well for me. Keep me posted if you have performed any other update or symlink to get totem to work properly.