[Ambassadors] Issue about multimedia codes while migrating a music school to half Fedora, half Suse.

[Simos Xenitellis]

Hi All,
My understanding is that gstreamer supports all these codecs provided
that the necessary gstreamer packages are added.
At this stage I am not familiar with Fedora (using Ubuntu for now). In
Ubuntu, you search in the "extras" repositories for packages
containing the string "gstreamer0.10*" in their name and you install
them. Then, any gstreamer-based multimedia application works just
fine.

Shouldn't we push people towards such infrastructure-friendly solutions?
What are the package names for those additional codecs/etc?

Simos

On 2/8/07, Bart De Soete <Bart.De.Soete at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> At this moment, I'm working hard on my current project which is migrating a
> music school from MS Windows XP (and for their servers: Windows Server 2003)
> to Fedora 6.
> However, there were already a few music tutors and staff familiar with
> openSUSE. They agreed to migrate for 100% to Linux, but preferred to use
> openSUSE.
> The migration went well if we speaking about basics, but one of the main
> issues are multimedia codecs.
> Multimedia is a very important aspect for the clients in that organisation.
>
> I gave them the Helix Banshee-player to play music and fixed the
> MP3-support-issue.
> However, they also want to be able to play following codecs:
>
> Movieformat: MPEG and likewise formats ??
>
> DVD-format: 1) how to rip dvd's ?  2) how to watch the ripped VOB-files on
> hard disk, 'cause they 're standard not supported.
>
> Soundformat: WMA and likewise formats ??
>
> I tried already a few things, but Banshee, Totem and Real-player always are
> giving the same error: you need to install a plugin to play this format.
> I installed the w32codec-all which should contain Win32 and other binary
> codecs, but NO RESULT.
>
> Can someone help me?
>
> Kind regards,
>
>
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