Cant play any media on fedora 12

[adbury]

hELLO guys,
I am a newbie to linux.. jus installed fedora 12 and chking it out ... been using windows all my life ...
I am having a problem with playing any media..
here are the things i have done to try and get it working

yum groupinstall "sound and video"

this got the entire package on to my system
Also installed the below using

yum install xine xine-lib

Still xine gives me

the stream 'THERE IS NO MRI..' uses an unsuported codec
video codec MPEG1/2(0x0) (NULL)
start play back anyway?

if i give an yes command the dialogue box persists...

If any of u guys are familiar with my situation i would very much appreciate you guidance ..

thank you in advance

[adbury]

Also i cannot use sudo -i at [user@machineName ~]$ prompt
it gives me

<username> is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.

TO become root i have to first use [ su ] then enter password which gives a
[root@machineName Username]# prompt
here when i type sudo -i it changes to pure root
My guess is since i installed all the updates at the root prompt i might not avail of them in the user mode or may be .. so gonna try ---- yum localinstall and see if it solvs anything

Or should i try something else please guide me

[devils casper]

Whatever you install as root, is available for Regular Users too.
Install VLC Player. It supports most of media formats.

su -c 'yum -y install vlc

Check this tutorial on Fedora 12.

[adbury]

This is very depressing !!!!
i just tried to yum localinstall xine

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Local Package Process
Cannot open file: xine. Skipping.
Cannot open file: xine-lib. Skipping.

[adbury]

@devils caspers

Thanks for you reply but i tries what you said and got the below

Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package vlc available.

I dont know why .. i having installed ever available media packages every time i play any .avi .mp3 .divx i get the following message

MPEG Layer4 someting not installed do you want ot search for it

then it searches and then says no available packages found or something similar
This is crazy .. not able to find the cause of this prob ... PLEASE GIVE ME SOME IDEAS !!! SOMEBODY !! I AM DESPERATE

[adbury]

I just erased whatever i installed using

youm groupinstall "Sound and Video"

Now reinstalling the same package hoping this does something ... maan!!!!!!

I really do hope i dont have to restart the linux every time i install a package like in windows

Thanks

[glennzo]

Do you have the rpmfusion repositories installed? If not, do so first. Here's the link, Configuration - RPM Fusion. Then go to Personal Fedora 12 Installation Guide and follow instructions for mp3 players and media players. You will also, due to the installation of the new repositories, be able to install vlc. That is provided by rpmfusion-free-updates. Here's what the output of the command yum repolist should look like once the rpmfusion repositories are installed:

[glenn@rafael ~]$ yum repolist
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, presto, refresh-packagekit
repo id                               repo name                                                status
fedora                                Fedora 12 - i386                                         15,241+125
rpmfusion-free                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free                                 383
rpmfusion-free-updates                RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Free - Updates                       916
rpmfusion-nonfree                     RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree                              124
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates             RPM Fusion for Fedora 12 - Nonfree - Updates                    370
updates                               Fedora 12 - i386 - Updates                                6,095+116
repolist: 23,129

One more thing. You don't need to do yum groupinstall "Sound and Video".

[adbury]

@ glennzo

Hey thanx vry much
jus as u said i didnt have the updated rpmfusion repositories installed . so in the terminal i pasted this

su -c 'rpm -Uvh there is a url which i cannot show as i am only 6 posts old but i got it from the link that glenzo mentioned'

Next

yum repolist

next

yum install audacious audacious-plugins-freeworld*

yum install mplayer mplayer-gui gecko-mediaplayer mencoder

this got me the audacious as well mplayer installed and got audio songs and the audio in the video playing still dont have the visual ... But i am now very much hopefull thanx to glennzo
Still i like to mention that mplayer gives the below error

Error opening/initialising the selected video_out (-vo) device

Any reason Why?

[adbury]

Me thinks i got no media display drivers [jus guess] so here goes

 su -c 'yum install kmod-nvidia'

the nvidia drivers

[glennzo]

The nvidia drivers are one area that will kick your butt if you're new to Fedora. I don't think you should worry about those drivers unless you have display issues or want 3D desktop, etc. Worry about the audio for now. Get that right and then move on to something else, perhaps the ability to play DVD's, etc. If you follow the guides for audio you should be able to play *most* of the current audio formats. If mplayer is giving you fits try another player. Rhythmbox, in my opinion, is one of the more versitile players available. It will also, when importing media, inform you about missing codecs, etc. and offer to install them for you.