FC2 & multimedia

[Advent Systems]

Jesse,
    Is it possable I dont have  "apt-get" installed on my system?   When 
I ran the commands you suggsted I get a "command not found" message.  I 
went searching for info and the apt-get  site says I should have 
/etc/apt/sources.list. files and I dont ?

Thanks,
Bob

Jesse Jarzynka wrote:

> 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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