Subj : Media Playing
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Runemaster
Date : Thu Nov 18 2004 08:57 pm

    
 > He's tried a lot of things to fix it but basically the right question
 > should be, what do you need to get something to play AVI and MP3
 > files ?

Download and compile xmms from xmms.org.  Fedora does not include MP3 because 
of patent issues.

 > He tried installing MPlayer but could only find an RPM for Core 2
 > which had dependancy problems but wouldn't tell him what package
 > he was missing, and then he tried something from the command line
 > which listed the file needed but Googling for that file just gave
 > him an exerpt saying something about it maybe being a glitch in the
 > install instructions in the RPM file...

Have him look at fedora.us in the extras areas.  There he may find an RPM for 
FC3.

Make sure he grabs the codec from the Mplaer site.

Hope that helps :)


-RM.


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