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Video Players

MPlayer

Fedora ships with a limited set of media player for both audio and video. For audio please read the MP3 player notes. For video and other multimedia (DVD, etc.) we will also be making use of a 3rd party repository: Livna. Make sure to have the Livna repository configured before executing the following. Note that many “dependancies” in libraries, plugins and codecs are shared between these applications and also the MP3 player applications.

The most popular media players (in order) are: MPlayer, Xine and VLC. Each has its own strengths. Install whichever you prefer although the first 2 are recommended.

About - MPlayer comes in a command line only interface (mplayer) or skinable GUI and it also has a powerful encoding tool MEncoder (also great for ripping or compressing audio/video). Additionally there is a highly functional web plugin allowing for many popular formats in Firefox/Mozilla (WMV, QuickTime, etc.).

Type the FOllowing Command in the Terminal.

[Puneet@localhost ~]$sudo yum install mplayer mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplug-in mencoder

Binary Codecs For Mplayer or Xine

• Navigate to: http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/ <!– (if the link is down, please use a mirror) !–>
• Select the package (.tar.bz2) matching your version of Fedora. Many 32-bit users will use: all-20071007.tar.bz2
• Install the codecs:
  [Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo mkdir -p /usr/lib/codecs
  [Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2 –strip-components 1 -C /usr/lib/codecs/

Vlc Player

VLC – VLC is a simpler media player with an easy to use interface. It also supports DVD playback. While most needs should be met with Xine and MPlayer some prefer VLC.

vlc supports almost any video type.

• Installation through yum with Livna enabled:

  [Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install vlc

Real Player

Download RealPlayer rpm from here or Select: “Advanced Installation RedHat Package” .

Next open a terminal and go to the Folder you downloaded it. Install it by typing:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install compat-libstdc++-33
[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
[Puneet@localhost ~]$sudo yum remove HelixPlayer

xine

[Puneet@localhost ~] $ sudo yum install xine xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-nonfree
[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg ffmpeg ffmpeg-libs

MP3 and Audio players :How To’s

Rhythmbox/Gstreamer

About : – Gnome users should have them already installed. If you don’t have it, to install it type:
[Puneet@localhost ~] $ sudo yum install gstreamer rhythmbox
To add mp3 and other audio support type:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Amarok

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install amarok

Adding mp3 support:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install amarok-extras-nonfree

Audacious

About : – Audacious is another audio player similar to old winamp 2.x. To install it type:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install audacious audacious-plugins-nonfree-*
If you want to use your winamp 2.x skin with audacious simply copy winamp’s *.wsz skin to /usr/share/audacious/Skins/

If your tags are in a different encoding than utf8 you can force audacious to use it:

Preferences -> Playlist -> Metadata -> Fallback character encoding -> iso8859-7

If you want to add in queue mp3s when double clicked edit this file:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo nano /usr/share/applications/fedora-audacious.desktop
And change

Exec=audacious

to

Exec=audacious -e

XMMS

About : – This audio player is no longer used, you could try audacious instead, but if you still want it type:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install xmms xmms-libs xmms-mp3

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If you visit a page which needs flash to be displayed correctly click on
the the missing plugin icon and Firefox will automatically install it
for you. Restart firefox and type about:plugins in the address bar. If
the plugin has been successfully installed you should see ‘Shockwave Flash’ among plugins.

• Adobe Flash Plugin

Alternativelly you can install the Adobe Fedora Repository and install/update Flash plugin easilly. Open a console and type:

Type The Following Commands in The Teminal One By One .

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo rpm –import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install flash-plugin

For Update Type :

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum update flash-plugin

Another Flash Plugins

Fedora 8 comes with an open source flash plugin. To install it type:

$ sudo yum install gnash gnash-plugin

Gnash for some reason installs its plugin into /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins when it needs to be in /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/plugins.

So to fix this type:

$ sudo ln -s /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnashplugin.so /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.8/pluginslibgnashplugin.

So Be careful to replace the correct Firefox version in the above command.
For the New Version Like I have :2.0.0.10-5.fc9

SO Mine Plugins will install on /usr/lib/firefox-2.0.0.10-5.fc9/plugins.

Alternate Way to Install Gnash Flash Plugins

Go to Applications->System Tools->Yum Extender

Click ON-> Package View

Now Search For ->Gnash :in Available Package

Choose The Packages Depending on Ur Version No.

Note: Thanks to Nomb for that info!

The aim of the project is to port almost all of the features of Beryl to Compiz plugins, and continue to write further Compiz plugins. At the same time, Beryl has been discontinued and Compiz will add some of the core changes made by Beryl to the Compiz core.

Compiz Fusion Plugin Sets

Main Plugins:

• Animation
• Color filter
• Expo
• Enhanced Zoom Desktop
• JPEG
• Negative
• Opacify
• Put
• Resize info
• Ring Switcher
• Shift Switcher
• Scale Addons
• Snapping Windows
• Text
• Window Previews
• Viewport Switcher
• Desktop Wall
• Window Rules
• Workarounds

Extra Plugins:

• ADD Helper
• Benchmark
• Crash handler
• Cube Caps
• Cube Reflection
• Extra WM Actions
• Fade to Desktop
• Firepaint
• Cube Gears
• Group and Tab Windows
• Motion blur
• Reflection
• Scale Window Title Filter
• Show desktop
• Splash
• Trailfocus
• Widget Layer

Unsupported Plugins:

• Fake ARGB
• Snow
• Mouse Switch
• Tile

Experimental Plugins:

• Screensaver
• Compiz-Scheme
• Sound
• Visual Event
• 3D Windows
• Cube Atlantis

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leigh123@linux have made some packages for the release of F8 as the Fedora version is still lacking some key packages like ccsm + fusion-icon.
These are the latest snapshots (0.6.99)

1. Install the fusion repo.

su wget http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion/compiz-fusion.repo

cp compiz-fusion.repo  /etc/yum.repos/

2. Install compiz-fusion ( you will need to remove the fedora compiz packages first and also delete the old configs /home/*/.config/compiz and /home/*/.gconf/apps/compiz or none of the plugins will work)

i.e

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ rm -rf /home/*/.config/compiz

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ rm -rf /home/*/.gconf/apps/compiz

or

Uninstall all the above Packges By Selecting

Applications->Add/Remove Software

Add/Remove Software -> Search->Installed

Search For Compiz and Apply.

After Removing or Uninstalling All The Compiz Packages

Type in the Terminal :-

su yum install compiz-all fusion-icon-all compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported compiz-bcop ccsm emerald-themes

Leigh123@Linux have a fix for the compiz-fusion error in F8

* Opening CompizConfig context* No GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap with direct rendering context

... nor with indirect rendering, this isn't going to work!

* Using the GTK Interface

You will need to downgrade xorg-x11-server-Xorg

For i386

su wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.3.0.0/9.fc7/i386/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.i386.rpm

rpm -U -oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.i386.rpm

For x86_64

su wget http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/xorg-x11-server/1.3.0.0/9.fc7/x86_64/xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm

rpm -U --oldpackage xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.3.0.0-9.fc7.x86_64.rpm

If this works OK for you you will need to ban xorg-x11-server-Xorg from updating

su gedit /etc/yum.conf

and add this line

exclude=xorg-x11-server-Xorg

at the End.

And Press Ctrl+O to Save and Ctrl +X to Save You r Done

Leigh123@Linux Regards to drhilbert

http://www.dfm.uninsubria.it/compiz/fusion/

For F8 srpm’s

http://www.4shared.com/file/2879857...699srpmtar.html

Enjoy

Note: To install video drivers you must first install the Livna Repository as stated above.

Nvidia-Driver

Just Type The Command Below :-

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ sudo yum install kmod-nvidia

Installing ATI Driver :-

Regards To Leigh123@Linux From The Fedora Forum .

Click this link to make sure your card is supported by this driver ( ATI cards 9250 and below are unsupported )

1. Install fglrx driver.

Type these commands in a terminal for the Livna driver

Code:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ su – rpm -Uhv http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm yum install kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit yum update kmod-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx xorg-x11-drv-fglrx-libs-32bit service fglrx restart fglrx-config-display enable

If you install a new kernel you will have to reboot for fglrx to work

2. Edit xorg.conf

Quote:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ su gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Then add these sections.

Quote:-

Section “Extensions”
Option “Composite” “Enable”
EndSection

Section “ServerFlags”
Option “AIGLX” “on”
EndSection

Section “DRI”
Mode 0666
EndSection

Don’t forget to save the changes(ctrl+0) and Exit(ctrl+x)

Finally, the following options are useful in the section “Device” :

Quote:

Option “UseFastTLS” “0″
Option “BlockSignalsOnLock” “on”
Option “ForceGenericCPU” “off”
Option “KernelModuleParm” “locked-userpages=0″

After Editing Don’t Forget To Restart X Server

Press Keys :- Ctrl + Alt + Backspace
3. Check for direct rendering.

Type these commands in a terminal

Quote:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ fglrxinfo

The output should look something like this.

Quote:

display: :0.0 screen: 0
OpenGL vendor string: ATI Technologies Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Radeon X1300/X1550 Series
OpenGL version string: 2.0.6458 (8.36.5)

And this command :-

Quote:

[Puneet@localhost ~]$ glxinfo

The output should look something like this

Quote:

If you can’t get direct rendering try adding this line to the “Device” section of xorg.conf

Quote:

Option “UseInternalAGPGART” “no”

That’s it :)

My Friend Ashish Told me About this When I was not to much familiar with Yum .

Graphical Interface ( yumex )

Yumex – Yum Extender

If you are not familiar with console(yum) you can use yumex. Yumex is a GUI (Graphical user Interface) for yum to simplify all the commands Given in Yum . To install it type:

$ sudo yum install yumex

From the Terminal.

** Note: For the rest of the guide I’ll be using yum for installing additional packages. If you prefer it you can install packages through yumex.
After Installation U can Use it From Applications-System Tools ->Yum Extender

Now in The Yum Extender Go to -> Package View.

It Will show -> Updates ,Available ,Installed ,All Package Options

Select The Desired Option as Per The Requirements .

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