On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 17:48 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Could some kind soul state as briefly and clearly as possible what is required to play a .mpg video file under Fedora 9/KDE/Firefox?
On my laptop I see from System Settings=>Advanced=>File Associations that I am given a choice for mpeg video files of GXine Video Player Gnome MPlayer MPlayer Movie Player Kaffeine
As a sample .mpg file I've taken /usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg .
[Maybe that is a bad example; if so could some guru suggest a better one? One incidental difficulty in solving multimedia problems under Fedora is that supposed solutions rarely give a sample file on which the solution can be tested. Perhaps a selection of multimedia files for testing would be useful. Is there such a thing anywhere?]
I'm not clear also if Firefox has its own, different, set of File Associations? Or will it read those set by Fedora/KDE?
I understand that the Fedora developers have a religious objection to telling us how to play ungodly video files, or even telling us where we can get this information.
But it would be nice if a standard godless informant could be agreed on ...
---- I suspect that this would relevant to the fedora-list but clearly is not relevant on the CentOS mailing list...ask on the right list and I will try to help (though it's been discussed several times on the Fedora list, as recently as two or three days ago).
Craig