How to play all media files in fedora

                               

Fedora comes with a default movie player called "Totem Movie Player".
Many users choose to replace it with other players because it is unable to play patented video formats like mp3,avi, rmvb and so on.

To Play mp3 files you have to open terminal and use following commands sequence (you must have root access to do so ... )

Code:

rpm -Uvh   http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Code:

rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Code:

yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly

more details .... 

Now ... for all media files  ... Please follow the steps as mentioned...

1. Add the repository for libdvdcss which will be needed by dvd playback.

Code:

rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-9.rpm

2. Get the codecs ready. We are going to use xine to support totem play movies. Xine can make use of the same codecs as mplayer does. So download from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/rele...071007.tar.bz2. Extract it to /usr/lib/codecs. Xine would search for the codecs in this directory.

Code:

cd Download //replace Download with the directory where you put the archive file
tar -jxvf all-20071007.tar.bz2
cp ./all-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs

3. Install everything that's needed.

Code:

yum install totem-xine libdvdnav libdvdcss xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld

4. Tell totem to use xine's help.

Code:

totem-backend -b xine

It's done. Now you can insert your DVD disk and choose the default option from the popped up dialog window or double-click any video file to enjoy your movie. Hope it's useful.

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For those who are not satisfied yet.... there are several other methods (which are less efficient in my view ... although a bit easier or ... )

1.Method One
2.Method Two
3.Method Three : ask me directly