FC2 & multimedia

Advent Systems adventsystems at verizon.net
Tue Nov 9 03:42:18 EST 2004 

Thanks Cyber Source,
    Everything was moving along till I hit "Could not connect to 
freshrpms.atrpms.net:80 (160.45.32.86), connection timed out"  there 
site was down.  Will try later.

Thanks again,
Bob Randal

Cyber Source wrote:

> mv your /etc/apt/sources.list and replace it with the one attached. 
> Then run "apt-get update" to poll the new list the run "apt-get 
> install xmms-mp3"
>
> Advent Systems wrote:
>
>> Jesse,
>>    Ok, I got apt-get installed and I got my repository set up but 
>> when  run "apt-get install xmms-mp3 " I get the message "Reading 
>> Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> E: Couldn't find package xmms-mp3"
>> Whats up?
>>
>> Bob
>>
>> Advent Systems wrote:
>>
>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>> /
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
># You can use the file:/ entries for creating your local repository mirrors.
>
># Fedora Core 2
>#cyb#rpm		http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 core updates
>#rpm		http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 tupdates
>#rpm-src	http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 core updates
>#rpm-src	http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 tupdates
>
>
># ATrpms for Fedora Core 2
># Possible sections: at-stable, at-good, at-testing, at-bleeding
>#rpm		http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/2/en/i386 at-stable
>#rpm-src	http://apt.physik.fu-berlin.de fedora/2/en/i386 at-stable
>
>
># FreshRPMS for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://freshrpms.atrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 freshrpms
>#cyb#rpm		http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 freshrpms
>#rpm-src	http://ayo.freshrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 freshrpms
>
>
># NewRPMS for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://newrpms.atrpms.net/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc2 newrpms
>rpm		http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc2 newrpms
>#rpm-src	http://newrpms.sunsite.dk/apt/ redhat/en/i386/fc2 newrpms
>
>
># Dag Wieers' rpms for Fedora Core 2
>#rpm		http://apt.sw.be redhat/fc2/en/i386 dag
>#rpm-src	http://apt.sw.be redhat/fc2/en/i386 dag
>
>
>#JPackage for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage 1.5/generic free
>### rpm		ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage 1.5/fedora-2 free
>#rpm-src	ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage 1.5/generic free non-free
>#rpm-src	ftp://jpackage.hmdc.harvard.edu/JPackage 1.5/fedora-2 free
>
>
># Planet CCRMA for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://planetccrma.atrpms.net/apt fedora/2/i386 planetcore planetccrma
>rpm		http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetcore planetccrma
>#rpm-src	http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetccrma
>
>
># NyQuist for Fedora Core 2 (Matthew Hall's GNOME2 pakages)
>#rpm		http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downloads/apt fedora-2-i386 production testing
>#rpm-src	http://people.ecsc.co.uk/~matt/downloads/apt fedora-2-i386 production testing
>
>
># GStreamer for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/pkg/ fedora/2/i386 gst
>#rpm-src	http://gstreamer.net/releases/redhat/ fedora/2/i386 gst
>
>
># Arjan's 2.6 test rpms
>#cyb#rpm		http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
>#rpm-src	http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
>
>
># kde-redhat.org for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net/apt/kde-redhat 2   stable
>rpm		http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net/apt/kde-redhat all stable
>rpm		http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net/apt/fedora 2   stable
>rpm		http://kde-redhat.atrpms.net/apt/fedora all stable
>rpm		ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat 2   stable
>rpm		ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat all stable
>rpm		ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora 2   stable
>rpm		ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/fedora all stable
>#rpm-src	ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat 2   stable
>#rpm-src	ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat all stable
>
>
># Fedora Core 2 - i386 - Dries' repo
>#cyb#rpm		http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc2/i386 dries
>#rpm-src	http://apt.sw.be dries/fedora/fc2/i386 dries
>
>
># Fedora Core 2 - i386 - spc
># Possible sections: production, testing, experimental, graveyard
>### rpm		http://spc.atrpms.net fedora/linux/2/i386 production
>#rpm		http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/2/i386 production
>#rpm-src	http://rpms.subpop.net fedora/linux/2/i386 production
>
>
># BIOrpms repository for Fedora Core 2
>rpm		http://apt.bea.ki.se/biorpms fedora/linux/2/i386 biorpms
>#rpm-src	http://apt.bea.ki.se/biorpms fedora/linux/2/i386 biorpms
>
>  
>

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