John McElroy on Tue, 22 Oct 2002 23:00:05 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] No Movie Player in RedHat 8


Try http://psyche.freshrpms.net/rpm.html?id=80 for a RH8.0 mplayer rpm.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 22:17:12 -0400
gabriel rosenkoetter <gr@eclipsed.net> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 22, 2002 at 08:40:00PM -0400, W. Chris Shank wrote:
> > I was dissappointed to find that I can't play any mpeg movies in RedHat 
> > 8. Anyone else have this problem (konq crashes). What do I need to get 
> > it working, any clues?
> 
> Well, I haven't a clue about Red Hat packages, but I'm a big fan of
> mplayer (after I got the faad2 audio library to compile properly).
> Get it from:
> 
>   http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/
> 
> Looks like they have RH 7.2 and 7.3 packages, which may well behave
> with RH 8. (Even if they don't, it's not that complicated to build
> provided you can find the libraries it needs for support as RPMs.)
> 
> It'll play MPEG*, DivX, AVI, Windows Media(!), older QuickTime
> movies(!!), DVDs and VCDs straight off the disk (the former probably
> only presuming you provide the decryption foofram; I don't own a DVD
> player so I haven't tried)...
> 
> -- 
> gabriel rosenkoetter
> gr@eclipsed.net
> 
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