Media (DVD, web content, video & audio) playback in Fedora

[Firewing1]

Originally Posted by firstlife

True, but that assumes the fedora mplayer uses /usr/lib/codecs for its codec folder. I don't know which it uses, (default on compile is /usr/local/lib/codecs) so I just assume all. Do you know which it uses, cause it is a bit of a hastle to symlink 3 folders on each install. I'd like to know.

If you're using the Livna precompiled ones, I'd bet /usr/lib/codecs since 99.9% of the time precompiled things NEVER touch /usr/*/local but it's possible it checks all of those locations.
Firewing1

[firstlife]

Thanks. that seems reasonable. I'll keep on doing all of them, just because I have a few mov and HD wmv files (which I one day will convert.) Only mplayer can handle them right now.

[Wangberg]

can't get the win32 codecs to install:

[root@localhost Desktop]# wget http://dl.atrpms.net/all/w32codec-1.0_20050412-13.at.i386.rpm
--01:39:45--  http://dl.atrpms.net/all/w32codec-1.0_20050412-13.at.i386.rpm
           => `w32codec-1.0_20050412-13.at.i386.rpm'
Resolving dl.atrpms.net... 130.133.35.8
Connecting to dl.atrpms.net|130.133.35.8|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
01:39:46 ERROR 404: Not Found.

[root@localhost Desktop]#

try

su
cd /tmp
wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rel...061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20061022.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20061022*
su -c 'ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32'

this should do it

[Firewing1]

ramasees' procedure should get the same end result, although I've noticed recently gstreamer handles most videos and those plugins aren't needed. If you do need them, that's how though.
Firewing1

[Wangberg]

thanks ramasees!

[eXDee]

Hello,
Not that the How To mentions it, but im having trouble with Xine under Amarok playing WMA's. Im sure it used to work initially, when i installed Xinelib-extras-nonfree and Amarok-extras-nonfree from the livna repo. However now i get the message "There is no available decoder. I tried removing the nonfree packages and adding them again, but it didn't help.

W32 Codecs has been removed in your F7 howto, so i assumed it didn't work. And im sure that it used to work with the nonfree packages.
Any ideas?

[Firewing1]

Which gstreamer and nonfree packages are currently installed?

rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
rpm -qa | grep nonfree

Firewing1

[eXDee]

$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0.10.12-1.fc7
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.12-2.fc7
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.5-6.fc7
gstreamer-tools-0.10.12-1.fc7
$ rpm -qa | grep nonfree
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.7-1.lvn7
amarok-extras-nonfree-1.4.4-1.lvn7

Tried Ramasees method, did nothing.

[Firewing1]

Hmmm... Try this:

yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-ugly gstreamer-plugins-bad

Firewing1

[eXDee]

Same "No available Decoder" message.
Its amarok running on the xine engine, as i said.
Im just exiting amarok and then starting it again between tests.

edit: searched the amarok forum for wma related things, but i can only find things from 2005. I have tried registering but it appears the email isn't coming through.

Currently installed:

$ rpm -qa | grep amarok
amarok-1.4.5-4.fc7
amarok-visualisation-1.4.5-4.fc7
amarok-extras-nonfree-1.4.4-1.lvn7

$ rpm -qa | grep xine
xinetd-2.3.14-12.fc7
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.7-1.lvn7
xine-lib-extras-1.1.7-1.fc7
xine-lib-1.1.7-1.fc7

$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-0.10.12-1.fc7
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.4-2.lvn7.1
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2-2.lvn7
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.5-2.lvn7
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.12-2.fc7
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.5-6.fc7
gstreamer-tools-0.10.12-1.fc7

$ rpm -qa | grep ffmpeg
ffmpeg-libs-0.4.9-0.37.20070503.lvn7
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.2-2.lvn7
ffmpeg-0.4.9-0.37.20070503.lvn7

$ rpm -qa | grep nonfree
xine-lib-extras-nonfree-1.1.7-1.lvn7
kdemultimedia-extras-nonfree-3.5.6-6.lvn7
amarok-extras-nonfree-1.4.4-1.lvn7

This used to work for FC6, however i've forgotten how i did it..

edit: If it matters, for some reason vlc is no longer decoding xvid or h264 when im sure it used to. I've posted about this elsewhere. Also, i've asked on the amarok forums about this problem.

edit2: Tested other players for wma playback:

VLC - Yes
Kaffeine - No (claims to detect xine and w32 codecs)
Noatun - No
Totem - No (says codec not installed)

[Firewing1]

I would post this on freeworld (livna's mailing list) maybe there's something going wrong with the nonfree package.
Firewing1

[eXDee]

Hello,
I removed all of the modules that you told me to grep, then ran yum clean all, then reinstalled them.
Now everythings working great. Thanks.

[Firewing1]

No problem - Sometimes you just get a leftover file or two that causes that problem.
Firewing1

[bodhi.zazen]

Originally Posted by ramasees

try

su
cd /tmp
wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/re...0061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20061022.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20061022*
su -c 'ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32'

this should do it

I had a lot of difficulty with this.

side : My wife listens to the dave ramsy show.

At any rate, I downloaded the codecs as above, then dl the mplayer source from here :

http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html

And compiled it with :

./configure --with-codecsdir=/usr/lib/codecs/ --with-win32libdir=/usr/lib/win32/