xine with Totem as a front end.

Here are directions :)

http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_installation_notes.html#Xine

Hi frashii,
thanks for your help but I have some issues:
- I'm using fedora core 4 not 5
this is the result of trying  To install Xine
[hatem@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost hatem]# yum -y install xine xine-lib xine-skins
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
http://ftp.lug.ro/fedora/linux/extras/4/i386/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 20:28:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54 (Debian GNU/Linux) PHP/4.3.10-16
Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Language: en
Trying other mirror.
extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Parsing package install arguments
No Match for argument: xine
No Match for argument: xine-lib
No Match for argument: xine-skins
Nothing to do
[root@localhost hatem]#

when trying to double click a .wmv in firefox it's downloaded then the following error message appears
There were no decoders found to handle the stream in file "file:///tmp/clip_51.wmv", you might need to install the corresponding plugins

would you please help in that

Hi frashii,
thanks for the information
now when I double click the .wmv file in the browser it's downloaded to the /tmp folder but when starting opening and running it it display the following message:

There were no decoders found to handle the stream in file "file:///tmp/fhg_sts_g031_clip01-5.wmv", you might need to install the corresponding plugins

can you please help me in that
best regards
HG

Can I watch Windows Media (.asf/.wmv/.wma) files using xine?

While the container format (system layer) ASF (wmv is just an alias) is fully supported in xine, for newer windows media 9 based streams you'll need to install windows binary codecs (.DLLs).

Possibly the most convenient way to get the Windows DLLs is to download them from the MPlayer website http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . The package is called "essential". Unpack it and move everything you find inside to /usr/lib/codecs (actually you can place them anywhere you want, e.g. someplace in your home directory, but then you'll have to set decoder.external.win32_codecs_path in your xine config file accordingly). Restart xine then and you should be able to watch windows media streams.

From - http://xinehq.de/index.php/faq#WMV

You might need to associate the WMV fiel tpye with Xine... what display manager (Gnome, Kde, etc) are you using (and fiel browser (Nautalis?))

hi frashii,
thank you very much for your help when I open the wmv or mpg files in Xine it plays them right

but I need a little more favour of you!!!

>>download them from the MPlayer website  http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html . The >>package is called "essential".

1. therer is no link in that file named essential at all so would you please give me the right URL
2. can you please guide me how to configure my system so that it opens the wmv movie in the xine    by double clicking it like it happens in the mpg files

Best Regards
HG

They moved it to the "Binary Codec Packages" section.

http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20061022.tar.bz2

To answer the question about auto opening, what window manager are you running ? Gnome? KDE? and what program is running that you are 'double clicking' it from (perhaps Nautalis).

Hi frashii,
thanks man for the url
now here is the answers on your questions:
>>>To answer the question about auto opening, what window manager are you >>>running ? Gnome? KDE?
window manager is gnome

>>>and what program is running that you are 'double >>>clicking' it from perhaps Nautalis).
I think it's nautalis
please help me in that as soon as possible
Best Regards
HG

  1. Right-click on a file of the type you wish to set a default application to open it with
   2. Select Properties
   3. Select the Open With tab
   4. Select the application you want associated with that file-type
   5. Click OK