Hi all,
My colleagues and friends from time to time send me .wmv files and I'd like to be able to view them under CentOS.
VLC was recommended to me, and AFAIR about a half year ago I tried installing it. I don't remember the exact details, but I do remember that the Red Hat and Fedora binary distributions didn't work without giving all sorts of errors. I _think_ I then did a source compilation, and managed to get VLC at least to start up from the command line.
However... It is still a brute text interface only, and when I try to add a wmv file to the playlist it gives me all sorts of errors and nagging about 'file format probably not supported' etc. :(
I just tried to install the Red Hat binary distribution again from FireFox (from: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), and I didn't see it complain about anything, but still it doesn't work any differently from the above. :(((
Does anyone know how to go about this (I don't mind doing a source compilation, just as long as I now which version to grab and how to get it properly installed)?
Cheers, Olafo
Olaf Greve wrote:
Does anyone know how to go about this (I don't mind doing a source compilation, just as long as I now which version to grab and how to get it properly installed)?
I'd add dag, dries and atrpms to your /etc/yum.conf , then yum install mplayer* gxine
With Mplyaer and gxine you will also need to go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html and get the necessary codecs.
User them both for awhile, and pick the one you like best.
More detailed instructions are below.
1. Edit /etc/yum.conf by adding:
[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
[dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/dries/RPM... enabled=1
[atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable enabled=0
2. Go to their homepages to import GPG keys or set gpgcheck=1.
3. GEt the codec package and follow the instructions in the README. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
4, yum install mplayer* gxine
On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 07:00 -0500, Ryan wrote:
Olaf Greve wrote:
Does anyone know how to go about this (I don't mind doing a source compilation, just as long as I now which version to grab and how to get it properly installed)?
I'd add dag, dries and atrpms to your /etc/yum.conf , then yum install mplayer* gxine
With Mplyaer and gxine you will also need to go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html and get the necessary codecs.
User them both for awhile, and pick the one you like best.
More detailed instructions are below.
- Edit /etc/yum.conf by adding:
[dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1
[dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/dries/RPM... enabled=1
[atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable enabled=0
Won't get any Axel Thimm packages without using "yum -- enablerepo=atrpms" with the above stanza.
Go to their homepages to import GPG keys or set gpgcheck=1.
GEt the codec package and follow the instructions in the README.
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html
4, yum install mplayer* gxine
A caution about enabling the above repos: although I've used them all; however, atrpms is particularly aggressive about replacing core packages and config files. If you do "yum update" with atrpms enabled you may find some things broken and all your yum (and possibly other) repo configs have been clobbered. You may want to configure them all as "enabled=0" by default and selectively update/install packages with "enablerepo=" switches on the command line. Using smart-pm with priorities can also help cherry-pick the packages and deps you want with minimal breakage.
Phil
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 06:38 -0500, Phil Schaffner wrote:
A caution about enabling the above repos: although I've used them all; however, atrpms is particularly aggressive about replacing core packages and config files. If you do "yum update" with atrpms enabled you may find some things broken and all your yum (and possibly other) repo configs have been clobbered. You may want to configure them all as "enabled=0" by default and selectively update/install packages with "enablerepo=" switches on the command line. Using smart-pm with priorities can also help cherry-pick the packages and deps you want with minimal breakage.
Phil
Yes, I should have included that warning, my apologies.
To be safe, you may want to try DAG, then DRIES before ATRPMS.
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