Multimedia Solutions

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.

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

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

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.

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.

skype.repo — by daMaestro — last modified Jan 30, 2008 09:53 PM

Repository definition needed for skype how-to

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.

Lightscribe Images — by Corwyn — last modified Jan 31, 2008 03:24 AM

 

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.