recomendation on a video and audio player

kissme1 · #1 July 19th, 2006, 10:31 AM

i have fedora core 5 on my system i have the following audio players installed

kaboodle
helix player
noatun
rhythmbox music player

the probelm is that none of these play mp3 or wma let alone wmv and mpeg,

i want recommendations on a good video and audio playing software in linux which is very easy to install and configure and if possible the instructions on how to install

i am anxious in knowing the opeinion of you computer experts

**kage** · #2 July 19th, 2006, 04:36 PM

Fedora does not include mp3 player support by default for legal reasons, you can find the guide for installing mp3 support here.

http://www.fedorafaq.org/#mp3

For audio files, XMMS is a rather nice app similar to WinAmp on windows. Amarok is also really nice, with many features added for mp3 players.

For videos, I usually install mplayer, xine, and vlc.

kissme1 · #3 July 19th, 2006, 05:31 PM

i downloaded xmms in both rpm and tar versions when i try to install it via rpm first it gives the error

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh xmms-1.2.10-1.src.rpm
error: cannot create %sourcedir /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES

after i create the directory /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES manually it gives the error

[root@localhost ~]# rpm -Uvh xmms-1.2.10-1.src.rpm
1:xmms warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root
########################################### [100%]
warning: user havardk does not exist - using root
warning: group havardk does not exist - using root

when i try to install from tared archive via ./configure it gives the following error

Code:

[root@localhost xmms-1.2.10]# ./configure
checking build system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking host system type... i686-pc-linux-gnulibc1
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... gawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for prefix by checking for xmms... no
checking for gcc... gcc
checking for C compiler default output... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ANSI C... none needed
checking for style of include used by make... GNU
checking dependency style of gcc... gcc3
checking for strerror in -lcposix... no
checking whether byte ordering is bigendian... no
checking for inline... inline
checking for an ANSI C-conforming const... yes
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether ln -s works... yes
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... (cached) yes
checking for ld used by GCC... /usr/bin/ld
checking if the linker (/usr/bin/ld) is GNU ld... yes
checking for /usr/bin/ld option to reload object files... -r
checking for BSD-compatible nm... /usr/bin/nm -B
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking how to recognise dependent libraries... pass_all
checking command to parse /usr/bin/nm -B output... ok
checking how to run the C preprocessor... /lib/cpp
configure: error: C preprocessor "/lib/cpp" fails sanity check
See `config.log' for more details.

any suggestions?? i think i am a hard head when it comes to linux

**kage** · #4 July 19th, 2006, 05:53 PM

Instead of using an rpm or tar package, use yum.