VLC or mplayer install help

[balli]

Hi guys,
I have installed and updated the urpmi from the easy urpmi website for mandriva 2007.0

I tried to installed VLC and mplayer...but it gave me the following error messages:
For VLC:

$ su
Password:
# urpmi vlc

To satisfy dependencies, the following packages are going to be installed:
libavformats51-0.4.9-3.pre1.7407.10plf2007.1.i586
libfaac0-1.25-1plf2007.0.i586
libfaad2_0-2.5-3plf2007.1.i586
liblame0-3.97-2plf2007.1.i586
libvlc0-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586
libx264_54-0.54.616-1plf2007.1.i586
libxvid4-1.1.2-1plf2007.1.i586
vlc-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586
vlc-plugin-a52-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586
Proceed with the installation of the 9 packages? (17 MB) (Y/n) y

    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libfaac0-1.25-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libfaad2_0-2.5-3plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/vlc-plugin-a52-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libx264_54-0.54.616-1plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/liblame0-3.97-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libxvid4-1.1.2-1plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libvlc0-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libavformats51-0.4.9-3.pre1.7407.10plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/vlc-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
                                                                               
...retrieving failed: curl: (19) RETR response: 550
...retrieving failed: curl failed: exited with 19 or signal 0

Installation failed, some files are missing:
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libfaac0-1.25-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libfaad2_0-2.5-3plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/vlc-plugin-a52-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libx264_54-0.54.616-1plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/liblame0-3.97-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libxvid4-1.1.2-1plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libvlc0-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/libavformats51-0.4.9-3.pre1.7407.10plf2007.1.i586.rpm
    ftp://ftp.cica.es/mirrors/Linux/plf/mandriva/2007.1/free/release/binary/i586/vlc-0.8.6a-2plf2007.1.i586.rpm
You may want to update your urpmi database

I got the similar error for mplayer.

Any thought?

[daark.child]

Try doing

#urpmi.update -a
#urpmi vlc mplayer

If you keep having problems, try using different mirrors for the PLF repos. To do this you would have to do something like

#urpmi.removemedia plf-free plf-nonfree

After that go to the easyurpmi site and setup new mirrors.

[balli]

Thanks for your reply.
which options (after selecting mandriva 2007.0 and i586) should I select in easyurpmi site while setting it up?

[abhishek456]

select atleast main,contrib, plf-free and plf-nonfree.

you can also use backsport but they are not fully stable and could result in stability problems

You can find most of the packages by selecting main,contrib, plf-free and plf-nonfree.

for mplayer gui version and plugins you need to do this

urpmi mplayer-gui mplayer-skins mplayer-fonts mplayerplugin

[daark.child]

Including the updates repo to the list of repos mentioned above would be good.

[balli]

Thanks guys. It works now. I just mentioned another location for easy urpmi...and it started working.

Another question:

If I want to make VLC as my default player. How can I do that. I am coming from windows , so i knew how to make VLC my default player. In linux it ask me to select my player to play a song but I dont know where to go and look for it. I am very new to linux, can you guys help me out?

Also, while listening music/videos online ...some sites just play the video on their webpage using windows media player in windows. Can we do the same thing in linux?

Thanks.

[balli]

If I want to make VLC as my default player. How can I do that. I am coming from windows , so i knew how to make VLC my default player.
.

I have solved this problem.

But I still dont have a clue about the following:

In linux it ask me to select my player to play a song but I dont know where to go and look for it. I am very new to linux, can you guys help me out?

Also, while listening music/videos online ...some sites just play the video on their webpage using windows media player in windows. Can we do the same thing in linux?

Thanks.

I noticed that the mplayer plugin just freeze in firefox. Is there a way to avoid it?

[abhishek456]

I noticed that the mplayer plugin just freeze in firefox

firstly try reinstalling mplayer plugin

In linux it ask me to select my player to play a song but I dont know where to go and look for it

just right click on the media you want to play and select properties.Go to open with tab and select the default player you want to play the media