I like the Xine player for my Linux box. I type some steps to install Xine on Fedora Core 3 with KDE window manager and also the various codecs like divx, Quicktime, wmv etc and how to get them working with Xine.
- Login as root and Download Xine Source from here to your home directory i.e /root :
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-lib-1.0.tar.gz
- Open terminal and type command:
If all goes ok and if it i successfully installed then proceed.
Now download a graphical frontend for xine player. I like this one:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xine/xine-ui-0.99.3.tar.gz
Actually i had to install ncurses. Get the rpm here:
now lets install the frontend:
If all goes right without errors then now download the codecs:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050216.tar.bz2
commands:
Now your codecs are installed in win32 folder since Xine searches for the codecs in this folder location. I also hardlinked codecs and win32 folder coz some players like mplayer looks for codecs.
Now you are ready to play movies
In terminal just type command:
If you want another skin here it is: