Wednesday, June 9, 2010

How to Enable Multimedia Support (MP3, Mpeg4, Divx, 3gp, avi) in Fedora 13

How to Enable Multimedia support in Fedora 13

By default fedora will not support MP3, AVI, Divx, 3gp, Mpeg4 etc.

Simply you can add this features in Fedora 13


Open a terminal and become root or Login as root user, then run this command:



# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

Install all other plug-ins

# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

After successful installation you can rum MP3 files


You can install Popular Media VCD/DVD Player with MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs Support by using the following command


# yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss

Doing this will also install a number of support libraries, including the libdvdcss plugin

Install Popular VLC Player in Fedora 13 by using the following
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install vlc


XMMS
Try the following for install xmms and make it MP3-capable

# yum install xmms xmms-mp3