Mozilla/thunderbird/firefox vid file problem

[Chuck Campbell]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:02:01PM -0700, Jim Hayward wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-04-05 at 08:08, Chuck Campbell wrote:
> > I've got FC-1 and rh-9 boxes which are running their stock mozilla.  I
> <snip...>
> > , but I can't get any of the above to play any of the .mpg 
> > clips from a web page.
> <snip...>
> 
> http://freshrpms.net/ has RPM packages that will allow you to play .mpg
> files and over multimedia files. Totem, for one, is a GTK2 based movie
> player. You can add freshrpms.net to your /etc/yum.conf with..

Thanks for that.  It seems all the windows users I know do this kind of thing
all the time, and their stuff just works.

I'm amazed that there is nothing set up to do this already in a RH9 or FC1
install, and that there is so little response to questions about it.

I'm guessing that the Linux community (represented here anyway) must not
have much need for this stuff... :-(

> [freshrpms]
> name=Fedora Linux $releasever - $basearch - freshrpms
> baseurl=http://ayo.freshrpms.net/fedora/linux/$releasever/$basearch/freshrpms

I haven't used yum, so I'm not sure about that end of things, but I can
certainly get an rpm or three and install them.

> 
> I have not installed any of these packages, so I do not know how well
> they work.

Any other places to ask that might have knowledgeable folks to help me on
my way?

thanks for the response,
-chuck