Hi all, My colleagues and friends from time to time send me .wmv files and I'd like to be able to view them under CentOS. VLC was recommended to me, and AFAIR about a half year ago I tried installing it. I don't remember the exact details, but I do remember that the Red Hat and Fedora binary distributions didn't work without giving all sorts of errors. I _think_ I then did a source compilation, and managed to get VLC at least to start up from the command line. However... It is still a brute text interface only, and when I try to add a wmv file to the playlist it gives me all sorts of errors and nagging about 'file format probably not supported' etc. :( I just tried to install the Red Hat binary distribution again from FireFox (from: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/), and I didn't see it complain about anything, but still it doesn't work any differently from the above. :((( Does anyone know how to go about this (I don't mind doing a source compilation, just as long as I now which version to grab and how to get it properly installed)? Cheers, Olafo
Olaf Greve wrote:> Does anyone know how to go about this (I don't mind doing a source > compilation, just as long as I now which version to grab and how to get > it properly installed)? >I'd add dag, dries and atrpms to your /etc/yum.conf , then yum install mplayer* gxine With Mplyaer and gxine you will also need to go to http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html and get the necessary codecs. User them both for awhile, and pick the one you like best. More detailed instructions are below. 1. Edit /etc/yum.conf by adding: [dag] name=Dag RPM Repository for Red Hat Enterprise Linux baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el$releasever/en/$basearch/dag gpgcheck=1 enabled=1 [dries] name=Extra Fedora rpms dries - $releasever - $basearch baseurl=http://ftp.belnet.be/packages/dries.ulyssis.org/redhat/el4/en/i386/dries/RPMS enabled=1 [atrpms] name=Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch - ATrpms baseurl=http://dl.atrpms.net/el4-i386/atrpms/stable enabled=0 2. Go to their homepages to import GPG keys or set gpgcheck=1. 3. GEt the codec package and follow the instructions in the README. http://www.mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html 4, yum install mplayer* gxine