MPEG video under Fedora 9

Craig White craigwhite at azapple.com
Sun Jun 29 05:02:56 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 14:28 +0930, Tim wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 03:10 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yes.  Using the Livna repo, I've installed mplayer and VLC.  Between the
> two of them, they've managed to play most files.  Adding the codec
> package from the mplayer website helps to play some of the rarer file
> formats in mplayer.  Adding one or two of the gstreamer plugin packages
> (bad or ugly, I can't remember) helps with playing some file formats
> with some programs like Totem.
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why not both?

gstreamer-plugins-bad
gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Craig




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