Re: MPEG video under Fedora 9
There does seem to be confusion in multimedia in Fedora, but, that is because there are a lot of choices for players. The second issue is that Fedora insists on packaging only free software. So, after you select you player(s) you need to download the non-free codecs among which is mpg video and mp3 audio, etc. I am successfully using xine, kaffein and vlc media players to play mpg wmv, etc movies. Also, flash movies in the browser (Youtube, et al). I've used RH linux Fedora since RH 5.2. Currently in FC 9 FireFox 3 I do not have the browser plugins working properly for wmv mpg and I believe the problem lies with FireFox (haven't had time to debug it yet). I've never been thrilled with totem and haven't spent the time to get it working right. You can down load (using yum or your choice) the players from the normal repositories. You need to get the mpg codecs and other non-free codecs from livna repository or other third party. You can get many for mplayer from http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . Get xine codecs from livna. John Timothy Murphy wrote: Craig White 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 . do you have any third party repositories installed? Livna? Other? Yes. I have livna.repo enabled - but no others, except fedora-update . follow this thread from a few days ago... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02561.html especially Rahul's answer... https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2008-June/msg02571.html I read this, or rather the article http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9/en_US/sn-Multimedia.html which it pointed to, but did not find it much help. It seemed to be all about totem, which appears to be the application called Movie Player in the f=Applications=Multimedia menu . [Why it doesn't say that Movie Player means totem I can't imagine - to me it just seems part of the utter chaos that constitutes Fedora Multimedia.] In any case, I installed totem-xine as suggested and gave the command totem-backend -b xine. Then I ran Movie Player and open the file I mentioned /usr/share/apps/k3b/extra/k3bphotosvcd.mpg, but all I saw was a meaningless mess of lines. So I would ask again - has anyone successfully played an MPEG video under Fedora-9? If so, could you tell me what application you used, and (if possible) any special codecs you installed. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: BOINC again !?
You need to open the ports in your firewall (iptables). John William Case wrote: Hi; I am having newbie problems with boinc, ports and SELinux -- I think. Networks and SELinux are two subjects I have put off learning to any rudimentary depth. So here goes. I can get Boinc to connect to the World Community Grid immediately after first download and install. (I have removed it and re-installed to test this). But after a reboot I can no longer connect to any of the project sites. I went to the WCG forum and explained my problem. The response was -- open ports 80 and 443. 'netstat' does not list 80 or 443 as present, i.e, as active. SELinux is in permissible mode. SELinux gives the following for those two ports. http_port_t tcp s0 80 http_port_t tcp s0 443 So ... where do I go from here? -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
Re: F9/KDE4: Can't access screen resolution changes after software install
I had a similar problem after trying a new video driver - resolution stuck as 600 x 800 and not able to change to a higher resolution from the display setting utility in kde. To get your x settings back you can shut down x with telinit 3, then log in as root at the command line (not an xterm). Next you run Xorg --configure which will generate a new xorg.conf file in the current directory which you must copy to /etc/X11/xorg.conf (see man Xorg). Finally restart x by telinit 5. If you still need to reset your kde settings rename the .kde directory in your home and then re login ensuring you specify a kde session. John Don Levey wrote: Based upon a mention in Linux Journal, I installed the Penumbra: Black Plague demo yesterday on my laptop: Acer TravelMate 4202WLMi Inten Centrino Duo 1.66GHz 1 GB RAM Intel GMA950, 1280x800 Fedora 9 x86 (hpl.log attached) KDE4 At the end of the installation, there were no errors, though it seemed to restart X on my machine. After logging in again, I tried starting the demo just to see that it was working. When I exited it, I found that my desktop had been changed to 800x600. I had hoped that restarting X would reset my settings, but that didn't help. Nor did changing the settings in the game itself. I am unable to reconfigure my desktop at all. While the correct (1280x800) resolution is visible as a selection in System Settings, the Apply/Save button is not enabled. This appears to be a specific problem in KDE; I can restart X and use another environment (Gnome) at the correct resolution. Likewise ICEwm; in ICEwm I can even start and run the game without issue and return to my proper desktop size. What is particularly odd is that when logging in via KDE it *starts up* in the correct resolution, but eventually changes. What happened to my machine, and how do I get it back? It's probably just a configuration change in one file, but I don't know which one. Thanks in advance, -Don -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
