FC2 & multimedia

[Stephen Burke]

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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