How can open any media file

[shumicpi]

Hello,
I am using Linux operating system but i cant be able to play any audio or video.What should i do now?

Can anyone give me any tips?

Thanks in advance.

Shumi

[jayd512]

Hello and Welcome!

What Linux distro did you install?
And what types of files are you trying to view? Flash? DVD playback?

[shumicpi]

I want to view DVD playback and i am using Red hat Linux.

[jayd512]

yum install compat-libstdc++-33 libdvdcss libdvdread libdvdplay libdvdnav lsdvd libquicktime

yum install flash-plugin mplayerplug-in mplayer mplayer-gui gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Should do the trick.

[shumicpi]

Ok thank you so much.I will try this now.

[Rubberman]

You also will want to install the libdvdcss package (found in the atrpms repository) which will provide decoding of commercial DVDs. Also, my personal preference for an audio/video player is VLC, which supports just about every format known, other than encrypted Windows media files.

[atreyu]

I second VLC, it is sweet.

I'd also recommend looking at the RMPfusion repo - lots of packages (multimedia and otherwise) available there.

[markjason]

Totem video player i.e the default gnome video player should be able to play .wmv / .wma video files.
If still not playing run the following command

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

this will install and enable to play dvd's.
Ubuntu adds formats like wma, wmv, quicktime, etc to restricted formats due to their license restrictions. run the following command in a terminal which enables support for restricted formats

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Hope this helps.