Multimedia Problem in fedora core 9

[abhi_69]

Hello all,
i am a new fedora user. i hav fedora core 9 installed. i think fedora is good for work. but, i can't play videos & DVD's in fedora. i am very confused....
if other linux distro like mandriva or slackware supports all multimedia, why not fedora??
whats the problem? i install 'fluendo mp3 decoder' to play mp3. they offer otther codecs, but, they r not free.
i hav no internet connection in my home pc. so, i can't use yum & other online software install tools. i use internet from my university campus.i didn't find any free video & DVD codecs for fedora 9.
i tried mplayer from 'freshrpm' site. but, it not install. it show error about dependencies. it show a list of libraries which are not installed like- libaac, libmad, libcaca etc. Are not those libraries included in fedora 9?

i also tried mplayer from a source tarball. it installs ok. i use-
./configure --enable-gui during compile.
it creates a menu entry. but, when i click it, no GUI appears. then i noticed,
skin directory of mplayer is empty. when i install some skin there, they didn't work.

so, now i am in great problem. what can i do now? is there any free video & DVD decoder pack for totem? i use gnome desktop.
i hav no other OS in my home PC. i need to play DVD's & videos in fedora.

plz. anybody helps me. give me details. any solution for me?

i again say, there is no active internet connection in my home pc. so, yum or other online installation tools will not work for me.
so, give any other method to download codecs as rpm or other format & install them directly from my hard disk.

plz. help me.

thnx.

[LordMorgul]

Your best bet is to go to http://rpm.livna.org and then browse the repositories (http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/) and while at your university download the packages to install ALL of the gstreamer-plugins-* packages, libquicktime, libmpeg, ffmpeg.

You will also want to get dvd playback packages, and for that you need libdvdcss. You need an application to play them, mplayer or vlc (I suggest both).

Those packages will have dependencies, so the first time you download them you might not get all the ones you need. I think x264 is needed for one or more of those.

[ValHolla]

hello, welcome to the forums.

there are several ways to solve this, since you don't have internet connection at home, it is a little trickier.

but here goes.
for DVDs

repository Location you can download the RPMs without the need for yum.
http://livna-dl.reloumirrors.net/fedora/9/i386 or x86_64 or ppc or SRPM

you need to download
I think I hit all the dependencies.

ffmpeg-libs
libcdio
libdca
libdvdcss
libdvdnav
libdvdread
libmad
libXext
libXinerama
libXrandr
libXxf86vm
totem
vcdimager
xine-lib
totem-xine
xine-lib-extras-nonfree

Here is a script you can run on a linux box that has internet connection that will resolve dpendencies.

#!/bin/bash 
## uncomment the line below to enable debug 
## set -x 
############################### 
## script to find a uniq list of dependencies for a given set 
## of packages 
## 
## package list file should have one package name per line 
## 
## 
################################ 

TMPFL=/tmp/file 

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then 
   echo "Usage: $0 {pkglist}" 
   exit 1 
fi 

PKGLST=$1 
if [ -f ${TMPFL} ]; then 
   rm -f ${TMPFL} 
fi 

if [ ! -f ${PKGLST} ]; then 
   echo "Package file: ${PKGLST} missing" 
   exit 1 
fi 

for i in $(cat ${PKGLST}) 
do 
   yum deplist $i >>${TMPFL} 
done 

grep provider ${TMPFL} |awk '{print $2}' |sort |uniq 
rm -f ${TMPFL} 

exit 0

if you find I missed some dependencies, Please post them back so everyone can benefit.

In future use the standard font and font sizes. Read the forum guidelines before posting again, especially the part about using proper capitalisation and spelling. Thanks.

Wayne

[abhi_69]

thnx to all for solution.
i install mplayer from source tarball again & compile it. it installs ok. last time i was made a mistake during skin installation. now, this is solved. i can play all format now with mplayer.
it has nice GUI.
i also installs rpm packages from 'livna' as all suggested.

thnx again. now i am free from all tension.

[easharpie]

You can try installing vlc

yum install vlc.i386

for VLC Program

yum install mozilla-vlc.i386

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