H.263 encoded video on FC3

[Simon Bone]

On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 13:29 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Mar 2005, Simon Bone wrote:
> 
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> > Is H263 an open standard or not? I hope so, since it's the only format I
> > can access this video in - and bear in mind that this is *my*
> > intellectual property here! I already gathered that quicktime is mostly
> > owned by Apple. I rather wish that this "just worked", but I guess a bit
> > of effort will be worth it. I have installed MP3 support from livia, so
> > I'm not opposed to trying an external repo if I must, nor to doing what
> > I must to get at this stuff.
> 
> it's mpeg4 basically...
> 
> either mplayer or vlc (videolan) which are available from freshrpms 
> and other repos should be able to play it.
> 

Thanks.

I'm tempted to try getting this working through Totem, since that's the
default video player. In FC3 it is set up to use gstreamer as a back
end, so if I can get the right plugins rpm for mpeg4 through that it
should work, I guess.

I don't see the obvious way to browse a repository to find appropriate
packages BTW - browsing based on package descriptions, for not-yet
installed packages, is what I want. Ideally using the same repositories
I'm already set up to download from. Yum seems to be good at updating
packages i have got already or installing packages I already know the
name of. But what I want right now to browse for a package I know
probably exists on one of the repositories I have configured, but don't
know the name of.

I guess a good look via the web at the repositories you mention is
warranted here. But in general, there are many packages in the core
repository or in the extra repository which I don't have installed yet,
but might want to. I could use a tip on how to search or browse those
package descriptions, without installing the package locally. And I
rather feel, a package management tool that knows about my yum
configuration ought to be better placed for this than my web browser.

Thanks,

Simon Bone