The modified version is below, please proof read and add opinions / corrections. thank you Nick Sklavenitis ============================================================================================== How to setup Multimedia on Centos 5 Enterprise. The following procedures will help setup multimedia support under Centos 5. Some recommendations should be mentioned pertaining to the yum Priorities plugin. Since mixing repositories make the system less compatible than the version shipped by the upstream vendor. Please consider following the following wiki document to assist in setting up the priorities plugin, due to the fact that we are adding some thing party repositories. http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Yum/Priorities Step 1: Add the Rpmforge Repo rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm Step 2: Add the Macromedia Repo rpm -Uhv http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm Step 3: Install Multimedia Applications yum -y install libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay livdvdnav lsdvd mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui compat-libstdc++-33 flash-plugin gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly Step 4: Installing w32Codecs in order to play everything under the Sun. wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm ; rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-20061022-1.i386.rpm wget www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm; rpm -ivh mplayer-codecs-extra-20061022-1.i386.rpm you should now have full multimedia and video support for most popular audio / video formats. ===============================================================================================