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Installed Fedora 11

Jun 13th

Posted by jainbasil in Fedora

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Leonidas, its now your reign; I respect your power and will be with you as your Ambassador !

Leonidas

Leonidas

Hey, I installed Fedora 11 Leonidas. My download completed just one hour before and in no time, my Laptop was ready to boot Fedora 11. I am happy with the performance of my machine with this new release. Earlier, some key combinations to reduce the brightness of my laptop was not working, and now, this is working. I am yet to test the finger print reader !

I installed all the multimedia packages from RPM Fusion repository and now waiting for an update to complete. I need to install some development packages like Qt, KDevelop and ofcourse, my favourite KDE 4.2.One of my earlier posts itself helped me to configure RPM Fusion in my fedora. I am adding a link to that post below.

http://jainbasil.wordpress.com/2008/12/01/multimedia-support-in-fedora-10/

Also, If you are upgrading your existing Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, This link may help you : http://www.howtoforge.com/how-to-upgrade-from-fedora-10-to-fedora-11-desktop-and-server

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Multimedia support in Fedora using RPM Fusion

Dec 1st

Posted by jainbasil in Fedora

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By default, Fedora is not able to play mp3 files, videos etc. There are many patent issues behind mp3 which common end user don’t know. i.e. patent holders have not provided necessary licenses for including such packages in fedora. Fedora also excludes other multimedia software due to patent, copyright, or license restrictions, such as Adobe Flash Player and RealNetworks RealPlayer.

RPM Fusion repositories give Fedora operating system the ability to play all kinds of audio and video formats — including, but not limited to MP3s or video files in MPEG or Xvid formats.You can browse the repository contents for the i386 architecture via these URLs (x86-64, ppc and ppc64 are supported as well):
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/releases/11/Everything/i386/os/repoview/index.html

To make RPM Fusion repositories available on a freshly installed Fedora system, we need to run the following command as super user  :

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

(Note: The above said is a single command )

To install Gstreamer plugins, run the command : yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly

Install Xine-lib : yum install xine-lib-extras-freeworld

If you need to install mplayer, run : yum install mplayer-gui or  yum install gnome-mplayer

Now, Install VLC MediaPlayer : yum install vlc

More details and a GUI based way how to configure and use RPM Fusion can be found at http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

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