<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> There does seem to be confusion in multimedia in Fedora, but, that is because there are a lot of choices for players. The second issue is that Fedora insists on packaging only free software. So, after you select you player(s) you need to download the non-free codecs among which is mpg video and mp3 audio, etc. I am successfully using xine, kaffein and vlc media players to play mpg & wmv, etc movies. Also, flash movies in the browser (Youtube, et al). I've used RH linux & Fedora since RH 5.2. Currently in FC 9 & FireFox 3 I do not have the browser plugins working properly for wmv & mpg and I believe the problem lies with FireFox (haven't had time to debug it yet). I've never been thrilled with totem and haven't spent the time to get it working right. You can down load (using yum or your choice) the players from the normal repositories. You need to get the mpg codecs and other non-free codecs from livna repository or other third party. You can get many for mplayer from <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html">http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html</a> . Get xine codecs from livna. John Timothy Murphy wrote: <blockquote cite="midg46nf1$d97$1@ger.gmane.org" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Craig White wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Could some kind soul state as briefly and clearly as possible what is required to play a .mpg video file under Fedora 9/KDE/Firefox? On my laptop I see from System Settings=>Advanced=>File Associations that I am given a choice for mpeg video files of GXine Video Player Gnome MPlayer MPlayer Movie Player Kaffeine As a sample .mpg file I've taken /usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg . </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">---- do you have any third party repositories installed? Livna? Other? </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Yes. I have livna.repo enabled - but no others, except fedora-update . </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">follow this thread from a few days ago... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02561.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02561.html</a> especially Rahul's answer... <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02571.html">https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02571.html</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> I read this, or rather the article <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html"><http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html></a> which it pointed to, but did not find it much help. It seemed to be all about totem, which appears to be the application called "Movie Player" in the f=>Applications=>Multimedia menu . [Why it doesn't say that Movie Player means totem I can't imagine - to me it just seems part of the utter chaos that constitutes Fedora Multimedia.] In any case, I installed totem-xine as suggested and gave the command "totem-backend -b xine". Then I ran Movie Player and open the file I mentioned </usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg>, but all I saw was a meaningless mess of lines. So I would ask again - has anyone successfully played an MPEG video under Fedora-9? If so, could you tell me what application you used, and (if possible) any special codecs you installed. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>