So you just re-installed Red Hat Fedora with the newest version, Fedora 8. You got a ton of media players to try out, and as a test run you try to play a wmv file. Oops, sorry, it won't work. Because Fedora Red Hat doesn't want to be liable for installing third-party proprietary codecs, which they'd rather the end user do, they tell you that you can get the codec at $16.99 at some site. (This is what CodecBuddy does.) The link tells you that using open-source formats is better. But you have a whole hard drive full of music in mp3 and video in wma and wmv format. What are you supposed to do?
There is a solution I found. Get MPlayer in the "add-remove software" option in the top Applications menu, or from the MPlayer website. Then, go to this Fedora 8 Installation Guide. Scroll down to Media players and follow the instructions, then scroll down a bit more to the binary codecs. Installation is a snap when you follow the instructions on the help guide. For ease-of-use (unless you know you have a 64-bit machine) just use the link to the tar provided. Configure the preferences to use pulse, and you can watch that wmv video in style!
Update: MPlayer may not play flac format music files.
(tags: Fedora wmv, Fedora 8 wmv, Fedora 8 wmv player, Fedora codecs, wmv Fedora 8)
4 comments:
Thank you - I've been bugged by this and now it's fixed
Almost a year later, I'd like to add that if you can get GNOME Mplayer, by all means do so. It is a frontend for Mplayer that really helps.
Here and so too happens:)
My friend and I were recently talking about technology, and how integrated it has become to our daily lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside... I just hope that as memory becomes cheaper, the possibility of transferring our memories onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I dream about every once in a while.
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