Lack of multimedia in fedora is one of my major complaints. This is intended for our newbies that have problems setup multimedia for mp3 music and dvd playback. Some commands are for fedora core 3, 4 and 5.
UPDATE: I started using <a href="http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/mplayer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: navy;">mplayer. Make sure you download the 6 packages tchung is listing. This is my personal <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=53335" target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;">yum installation of mplayer which can be compare to windows media player. Totem will also meet your needs.
UPDATE:<span style="color: green;">I added streamtuner for internet music lovers using shoutcast and others.
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">This how-to will show how to install: AmaroK, Mplayer, XMMS, Totem, Kaffeine, Ogle, Realplayer, MP3 plugins, and codecs for your music, video needs. Just added Streamtuner for listening music over your internet connection and all other streaming needs.**
<span style="color: darkorange;">You need the repositories to install via <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27279" target="_blank">YUM.
Not being able to work my way aroud xmms in fedora core 1 I discovered <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1307" target="_blank">Zinf player and you can read the post for more info.
If you really want to rediscover your music you have to try <a href="http://amarok.kde.org/" target="_blank">amaroK! This is one of the latest music player by KDE and it’s awesome. Amarok is not included in fedora as it is with other distros such as mandriva but it is avaliable from livna and fedora extras. You will need some kde dependencies but it you use kde as your desktop of choice it will take less than 5 mins. to install. Just run:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:
You can also find it at the <a href="http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/Rediscover_Your_Music_With_Amarok_Linux_Player" target="_blank">fedoranews.org
<span style="color: navy;">Rythmbox Player
3. In FC3 I decided to try Rythmbox which is a very good music player too. We need to install some plug-ins to make work properly. Run this command to install via yum for fc 3 and 4 users:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code:
<span style="color: navy;">XMMS Player and adding winamp presets.
4. If you did not install xmms during installation run this command in terminal to install all require apps:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">yum -y install xmms xmms-mp3 xmms-wma xmms-skins
To add the <a href="http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=500267" target="_blank">winamp presets go to this how-to.
<span style="color: navy;">Streamtuner and Beep Player <span style="color: darkgreen;">To listen to streaming music from the internet you will need <a href="http://www.nongnu.org/streamtuner/" target="_blank">streamtuner. Just run this command to install all needed apps and dependencies:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> yum -y install streamtuner bmp-mp3
Please note under fedora streamtuner uses beep player that is why its needed to install bmp-mp3 plug-in and another dependency.
<span style="color: darkgreen;">FunkyRes showed me how to do online music using Rythmbox.<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Quote: <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6" width="100%">
You need to have mp3 support in gstreamer (can play mp3 files in Rhythmbox)
Download a shoutcast playlist file from <a href="http://www.shoutcast.com/" target="_blank">http://www.shoutcast.com/
I right click on the ”tune in” button and choose ”save link as”
It will end in a .pls
Then from Rhythmbox –
Choose the radio option (opposed to Library)
Go to the Music menu and choose
Playlist -> Load from file …
Select the .pls file, and it should show up in your internet radio stations. Choose it and press Play.
Same concept applies to XMMS.
<span style="color: navy;">RealPlayer For Linux
6. Download <a href="http://www.real.com/linux/" target="_blank">realplayer for linux here. Open terminal and install it:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">rpm -ivh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
To use it go to >Sound and Video >Realplayer.
<span style="color: navy;"><span style="font-size: small;">For DVD playback I’ve used Ogle, Totem (my favorite in fc2, and 3), kaffeine and mplayer <span style="color: darkgreen;">(mplayer will play .avi, .mov and mpeg files). If you have your <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27279" target="_blank">yum repo’s setup you can always use <a href="http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=25880" target="_blank">yum to install.
<span style="color: navy;">Ogle Player and all needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
I will not get in a lot details about Ogle but this is the yum command:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">yum install ogle
<span style="color: navy;">Kaffeine Player and needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
Kaffeine is another great player for dvd and mp3 music you can also use yum to install it:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">yum install kaffeine
it only needs one dependency and yum will install it for you.
<span style="color: navy;">Totem Player and all needed dependencies will be installed via yum.
To install Totem I suggest you use Livna or Freshrpms repository because both provide the best installation including all dependencies needed. BUT before you install totem you must make sure you did not install that one included in fedora if so remove it first:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">rpm -e totem
NOW you can install from yum!<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">yum install totem-xine
<span style="color: navy;">To install the codecs for mplayer open termial become root and do the following:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 98px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr"> $ wget ftp://ftp1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050412.tar.bz2 $ tar jxvf essential-20050412.tar.bz2 $ mkdir /usr/lib/win32 $ cp essential-20050412/* /usr/lib/win32
Please note that the version may change and here is the link for the <a href="http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html" target="_blank">latest codecs.
<span style="color: blue;">To install the mplayerplug-in do the following:
<a href="http://www.fedoranews.org/tchung/firefox-mplayerplug-in/" target="_blank">Download it and install it:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">rpm -ivh –nodeps mplayerplug-in-2.75-0.FC3.i386.rpm
Check you mplayerplug-in here: <a href="http://www.apple.com/trailers/" target="_blank">http://www.apple.com/trailers/
To hear some sound in firefox or mozilla install mozplugger:<div style="margin: 5px 20px 20px;"> <div class="smallfont" style="margin-bottom: 2px;">Code: <pre class="alt2" style="border: 1px inset; margin: 0px; padding: 6px; overflow: auto; width: 640px; height: 34px; text-align: left;" dir="ltr">yum -y install mozplugger
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