FC2 & multimedia

[Jesse Jarzynka]

Geez, come on people don't talk about Fedora if you don't use it. There
absolutely nothing we can't do in Fedora Core X. All you have to do is
use apt-get. 

$ apt-get install xmms-mp3

Viola! As long as you have a decent repository list you should grab it
fine. I don't know what the problem with Samba is, but we do just fine,
perhaps Dad would be the one to ask about that if you have a question. I
don't know where else or what other kinds of multi-media problems you
may be having, but feel free to e-mail me with any questions about
Fedora, I think I have pretty much everything tweaked. The only other
thing you may find is that K3B doesn't support mp3's either right out of
the box, but that's simple too:

$ apt-get install k3b-mp3

See a pattern? Whatever reason's- and there are many -that the Fedora
gurus don't support mp3's I don't see it a big hassle if you know what
to do. As long as the distro stays free, which I think the whole point
of that is, we're happy. Core 2, like anything you know inside and out,
work's great once you learn it. Remember when Linux was hard? Hope that
helps, -Jesse

On Sun, 2004-11-07 at 12:41, Stephen Burke wrote:

> Hello, 
> 
> I have just finished installing BLAG linux (
> http://www.blagblagblag.org/ ) to replace a SuSE 8.2 system that fried
> in various ways I do not yet fully understand, practically the same
> day that I had finally gotten it configured to play just about any
> media file I could find. It appears, from the installation and startup
> visuals, that it is based on FCx, so it will probably run on your
> machine. I am still trying to rebuild something resembling the SuSE
> system that died, so I am just tasting the flavor of this particular
> linux. So far, it seems to be very madia friendly (xmms {with mp3
> support}, mplayer, xine, etc, all on one CD). I did an "Everything"
> install to save time on package selection and since I have more than
> enough room on this HD, so I am confident that there is much more here
> that I have not even discovered yet.
> 
> I would recommend it highly.
> 
> I know that RH took mp3 functionality out of 9 (easily replaced with
> rpms from somewhere out there), but I'm not sure what fedora does,
> since, until now, I have only used a couple of FC installations
> briefly, as I have not been able to get Samba running properly on it.
> Same here with blag, so far, except this time I am determined to get
> it working, since it also comes with XFce and blackbox window
> managers, which is nice. No KDE, though, so kaffeine, one of the
> better media players I have found, could be tricky to install. 
> 
> Any help with Samba on fedora would be most welcome. Thanks.
> 
> Hope it works for you, 
> S.
> 
> Advent Systems wrote: 
> 
> > Hello All, 
> >    This my be a really stupid question but does anyone know if you
> > can play multimedia files in FC2, mp3 files for starters?  If you
> > read my previous posts I'm using FC2 for the first time.  I was
> > unable to purchase a boxed set so I have no manuals, the xmms site
> > (my favorite player) only supports FC1 and other sites seem to imply
> > FC2 is not multimedia friendly.  Since I work in the AV industry I
> > need something at least as usable as suse or mandrake.  I dont need
> > it to do actual production work as I use industry specific windows
> > based programs for this at work.  Any advice on a multimedia
> > friendly based distro would help. 
> > 
> > Thanks, 
> > Bob Randal 
> > PS: I all reddy tried coral Linux, RH7, mandrake 8 & 9, and suse 
> > 8.   They worked fine  as far as the  multimedia aspect but  as you
> > see from my previous posts  in the past week FC2 is the only distro
> > that  will not lockup my computer.   I'm sure I  could  put suse
> > back on  right now and it may run fine for a few days but thats
> > nuts.  If  I cant find something it's back to  windows for a while 
> > :( 
> > 
> > BR 
> > 
> 
> 
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