I'm really starting to get frustrated and I'm hoping that someone here might
be able to help me.

Basically, I'm just trying to play .mp3's and .mpegs on my RH8 install. I
have a 60 gig drive, so I installed everything that came with the distro.
Unfortunately, the media players that come with this distro act like they
were programmed by a 3-year old. None of my movies or music plays on any of
the default players. In fact, the players that come with RH8 /seem/ to
completely SUCK.

Because I'm currently stuck with a cursed winmodem I'm unable to get online,
except with this XP install on my other drive.

Anyway, I dl'd a Xine .rpm from freshmeat, burned it to cd and tried to
install it, but rpm says there are dependency issues. I'm afraid that if I
waste time hunting down the dependencies that xine needs to install I'll
just end up having dependency problems with each of those files and I'll
spiral into a recursive hell that will end with me delparting my linux drive
and putting XP Pro on it and banishing Linux to my small drive. I hate M$
and my goal is to completely migrate away from Windoze.

I hope someone here can help me in some way, if only to point me to a place
where all the files I need are actually conveniently packaged into one sweet
tarball. I don't mind having to hunt around and spend time trying to locate
rare files, etc. if I'm trying to do something "off-the-wall", but I'm
really disappointed that RH8 out of the box won't play my movies or music.

Thanks for any advice and for maintaining such a great group.

Steve

ps- I'm sure that the easiest solution is to get this piece-of-crap on-line
and run some kind of update then try a clean install of xine, but I can't
afford to buy new hardware right now and trying to install the half-assed
linux drivers that I've found for this lucent mars chipset modem is more of
a hassle than I'm willing to deal with right now.
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