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Subject: Re: media won't play on RH8
your box insn't the problem and neither is redhat (for what it does).

redhat is more of an "office oriented" distro these days.

Still, there are some licensing issues when it comes to MP3's and AVI's and
other multimedia formats.

I have found using urpmi along with several mirrors for rpms can be of great
help in loading rpms that have diverse dependencies (I run mandrake here and
ran into that a while ago).

if you can get a list of dependencies, you can request they all be installed
by name using urpmi. its a lot like apt-get in its capability, though not
quite as user friendly or functional. still, for redhat, its a pretty good
command line tool.

also, what version of redhat are you using (this makes a difference in what
mirrors, etc you can get to without incurring dependency hell).

Technomage Hawke

On Saturday 03 April 2004 07:12 pm, Wagner, Steven G wrote:
> 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:
> [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.
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