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