Bart, You're right, I shouldn't have acted so ignorant in my post. I was actually referring to my box as a whole as a "piece-of-crap" mostly because I have a winmodem. But I don't like Red Hat 8 /out-of-the-box/ and I'm going to be trying out Mandrake 10 very soon. My friend told me that Mandrake 10 can read and write to NTFS drives so that will help me when I have to dl update files via my XP install that can utilize my modem. As soon as I can afford DSL none of this will be an issue so I'm not too worried about it. I just like to at least listen to tunes while I'm working on my programming skills. I was surprised that a distro like RH8 wouldn't play my music and videos right away. I don't know how I could have missed installing anything required, as I selected "everything" when I ran the install. I want to try out different versions of Linux anyway, though, so I'm excited to check out Mandrake 10. And I am not completely writing off Red Hat, as I was never able to download the updates for the older version I have. Maybe if I could update it fully I'd like it more. Another distro I've been told to check out is Xandros 2.0. Anybody have any comments regarding that distro? Thanks again for keeping such an exciting group here in PLUG. I'm studying for my Linux+ and when I get more experience using and administering Linux I hope to become a more active participant. All you guru's on this list deserve a big round of applause for all the help you so generously offer to everyone. Have a great weekend, Steve -----Original Message----- From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Bart Garst Sent: Saturday, April 03, 2004 12:24 PM To: PLUG Discuss Subject: Re: media won't play on RH8 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. > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.605 / Virus Database: 385 - Release Date: 3/1/2004 > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. 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