MPEG-1 read support

[Dave Bolt IT Solutions]

Well, I don't know about wikipedia articles, some are good but others are 
not so good.
Personally, I look on the Applications menu in Fedora, under Sound and Video 
on Fedora 10, for something that looks like a movie player. If it's not 
there, I take a look at the available packages in 
System->Administration->Add/Remove Software for various things. 
Interestingly, on my current setup a search for movie does not find "Movie 
player for GNOME", but a search for totem does, so try various searches.
Having got a movie player installed, try it with the file you want to play 
and see what happens.
In my case, using Totem, a popup informed me that support for mpeg-1 and 
mpeg-2 was required and asked if I wanted to search. I did, and two 
gstreamer related packages were found and installed. Package-kit found a 
number of other updates which I also installed, and I had to restart Totem 
before it recognised that the support was now installed, but I'm looking at 
my home movies from about 5 years back.
Regards
Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: ""Stanisław T. Findeisen"" <sf181257 at students.mimuw.edu.pl>
To: <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Monday, March 16, 2009 10:36 AM
Subject: MPEG-1 read support


> Why doesn't Fedora have MPEG-1 support (playing)?
>
> Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-1#Patents they say: "MPEG-1 video 
> and Layer I/II audio may be able to be implemented without payment of 
> license fees.". And it looks that there are various GPL programs/codecs 
> ready.
>
> So what's the problem?
>
> Thanks!
>
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