Video and Audio codecs

Has anyone managed to install the missing codecs? I can't view almost any video, keep getting the no codec error message.

 

Same here, however, I've managed to install VLC in Linpus, and now I can just play almost any multimedia file I want.

Just use this guide: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-fedora.html (linpus is actually a version of fedora 8)
After installing RPM - LIVNA you can find vlc via the add/remove software function, available in advanced mode.

I'm not sure whether this is the easiest way to do it since I'm a total linux n00b

 

I took an alternative approach and simply installed VLC using the instructions found at their site for Fedora 6.

Code:

$> su -
    #> rpm -ivh [url]http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm[/url]
    #> yum install vlc

After some 20MB++ downloads, i can watch pretty much anything with VLC. Does anyone know a way to add a shortcut on the simplified desktop? That and an easy way to access windows shares...

 

Wow, i only saw your message after i posted mine, one minute apart . I didn't now which fedora version this was so i guessed, it works just the same. Any ideas on the windows shares ??

 

Hehe, yeah seems like we both came to the same solution I don't know how to access windows shares though, but will look into that as well. Have you managed to install firefox3?

 

No, i haven't tried yet, i tried yum:

Code:

 
$yum list | grep firefox
acs-firefox-fonts.i386                   0.1-20080603.fc8.acer  installed       
firefox.i386                             2:2.0.0.14-20080612.fc installed       
firefox.i386                             2.0.0.15-1.fc8         updates         
firefox-devel.i386                       2.0.0.15-1.fc8         updates 

But it seems only version 2 is available.