Multimedia Solutions

Adding the Flash Player Plugin — by scott_glaser — last modified Aug 21, 2008 08:00 AM

Macromedia Flash Player is the high performance, light-weight, highly expressive client runtime that delivers powerful and consistent user experiences across major operating systems, browsers, mobile phones and devices. Installed on over 500 million internet-connected desktops and mobile devices, Flash Player is the backbone of the Flash Platform and enables organizations and individuals to build and deliver great digital experiences to their end users.

Amarok — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

Amarok is a powerful music player and manager made for the KDE Desktop environment. Amarok uses the gstreamer framework for music playback and encoding. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 and iTunes music stora aac files, aren't included in gstreamer by default. You can add support for such formats by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org

Audacious (formerly known as Beep Media Player) — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

Audacious or BMP as it was formerly known, is a rewrite of the classic XMMS player with a new, modern interface and various other featurs you would expect from a modern music player. All while keeping true to the lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player ideal. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in Audacious by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org

Audio capture in Skype and other devices — by crash — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:35 AM

If your skype test call doesn't give your voice back then you may have to enable your "microphone capture" an your "mic boost" devices. Note that this aren't the "microphone" device. This also applies to any other program that need microphone capturing, as the ekiga VoIP service, and is not skype unique feature.

FIX: Mplayer DTS support repos — by obsethryl — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

If you have DTS mplayer support issues and you want to use both livna and freshrpms repositories, follow the instructions here, else you will be having dependency problems. Use of these instructions is your exclusive responsibility.

Installing Mplayer 32bit on x86_64 — by scott_glaser — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

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Installing Skype — by daMaestro — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

This howto covers setting up the skype repo and installing skype.

Installing Win32 Codecs — by daMaestro — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

This howto covers installing the windows media codecs for use on Fedora.

LightScribe for Linux — by Corwyn — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

this How-to shows how to download and install the LaCie 4L LightScribe Labeler for Linux.

Non-free plugins for GStreamer — by jpmahowald — last modified Apr 18, 2008 05:16 AM

GStreamer is a multimedia framework used by many media players including rhythmbox, banshee, totem, listen, exaile and others. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included with GStreamer by default. You can add support for mp3 and other formats by installing an add-on package from the third party repository rpm.livna.org

Totem-Xine movie player supporting video/audio non free. — by crash — last modified May 26, 2008 12:16 PM

Totem-xine is a simple but powerfull movie player, this version is in livna.repo, and is linked against xine-lib unlike Fedora totem package, which is linked against gstreamer. Support for DVD playing will also be added.

VideoLAN Client (VLC) — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

VideoLAN Client is a powerful open source media player. VLC will play all the most common audio and video formats, as well as most of the not so common ones. Due to legal issues with some of these non-free formats, VLC is not included in Fedora itself. However, you can get VLC from third party repository rpm.livna.org.

XMMS - a music and MP3 player — by Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

XMMS is a lightweight, simple no-nonsense music player. Due to legal issues support for various non-free formats , including mp3 files, aren't included in XMMS by default. You can add support for mp3 by installing an add-on package from third party add-on repository rpm.livna.org