Subj : Media Playing
To   : ROB MCCART
From : Poison
Date : Wed Nov 24 2004 07:14 pm

  Re: Media Playing
  By: ROB MCCART to ALL on Tue Nov 16 2004 17:03:00

I use XMMS seems to work like winamp.

 > A friend of mine, a relative Linux newbie, recently installed
 > Fedora Core 3 and has a problem...
 > 
 > 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 ?
 > 
 > He installed Totem, but it gave an uninformative error message,
 > something like, "Can not play, unknown reason.."
 > (He's played these same files more than a year ago in
 > various other versions of Linux so they aren't too new..)
 > 
 > 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...
 > 
 > I know this is too vague to be Really helpful but I wanted
 > to give an idea of what he's trying..  As I said at the start,
 > what he needs to know is what does he need to play AVI and MP3's
 > that for whatever reason Fedora didn't bother including?..
 > 

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