laptop linux…part deux

Now that I had the basics working on the laptop, it was time to play some music and watch some movies. The packages I settled on are the Rhythmbox Player with the gstreamer plugin, and Totem-xine.

First, install the livna repository into yum.

Next, install the packages with yum.

yum -y remove totem;yum -y install totem-xine gstreamer-plugins-ugly rhythmbox

I found the following shell script at Fedora Forums. It claims to play everything.

For Core 6:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
yum -y install mencoder
echo -e "remove totem\n install totem-xine libdvdcss libdvdnav xine-lib-extras-nonfree\n run\n quit" | yum -y shell
yum -y install mplayerplug-in mozplugger evince vlc compat-libstdc++-33
wget http://software-dl.real.com/217bb62ac033864a3d19/unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
rpm -Uvh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
cd /tmp
wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20061022.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20061022*
su -c 'ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32'

Adjust your version accordingly.

Enjoy

General : Comments (0) : posted Jun 21st, 2007 by blaster

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