I understand being frustrated, but try to remember calling a persons
favorite distro a "piece of crap" is not the best way to get them to
help.

Google (searched for "RedHat mp3") turn up this link:
http://staff.xmms.org/priv/redhat8/

Bart



On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 02:14, Wagner, Steven G wrote:
> 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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