Hi,
I'm using Fedora Core 6.
i've installed the system, and the soundcard is working fine.
but for some reason, the media players won't play.

in amarok, I get the following message :
The Engine claims it can not play .mp3 files. Try changing the engine.

and when I do I get the same error message.

in Kaffeine player :
It just plays the .avi file super fast, but you can't see the image or hear the audio.
no error message atal.

in Totem Movie player : (same file)
You do not have a decoder installed to handle this file.

and the rest of the players don't even give an error. they simply don't show the file in the lists, and simply don't play anything.

please help
thanks
//Santiago

I know that Ubuntu doesn't have proprietary codecs installed by default because of legal reasons and I'm assuming this the problem in your case. If you issue this command, then Amarok should be able to play them.

thanks! it's working!

now if I could only get my f%$#n wireless to work, I'd be a happy boy


//Santiago

I'm still working on that too.

thank you

I was thinking it might have something to do with insmod or something. seem to remember having to do something like that back when I started using mandriva 2006.

is there anyway to reinstall the whole driver from scratch, and where the OS wouldn't interfere?
I was thinking maybe I had conflicts in the paths and what not....

man! I miss the days when LINUX was half of a CD-rom, and any extra stuff was usualy one file that needed to be compiled and installed in the kernel...
mmm..


starting to get old I suppose.

have a good one
//Santiago

Did you compile/install it yourself or did you let the package manager do it?

the installation detected the card, and set the driver.
However, looking at it now, it set the ipw2200 driver to eth1.
and another one for the eth0. (the wireless card)

then, I followed some steps posted on the webpage, just like last time, and I copied the firmware to /etc/firmare/
just like last time.
then I did some random trouble shooting steps from the web page, from the built in manuals, from some random LUG pages..
I'm not sure by now what I have or havn't done.


also, totem isn't working. for somereason it's set as my default player. but it's not playing wmv files. it says I dont' have a decoder. do I run the same command you told me for amarok? (but change amarok to totem)

thanks for your help
//Santiago

You could install the w32Codecs for totem but with some .wmv files it doesn't matter. There is some kind of DRM software that prevents you from playing them. Where did you get the files?

It's mainly files on web pages like you tube.
and some files that I downloaded a long time ago.
I assume from limewire.

and how do I find the w32Codecs files to install?

//Santiago

Try this

i just get the error message

[root@localhost santiago]# yum --enablerepo=atrpms install w32codec
Loading "installonlyn" plugin

Error getting repository data for atrpms, repository not found



//Santiago

U could use MPlayer in FC6, there is some prblm with Totem & Kaffiene media players, plz suggest me something for playin .vob & Divx format

VLC is another good player. Personally I don't have any problems with xine based players like Kaffeine. I use the win32 codecs from the mplayer website.