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:
http://xinehq.de/index.php/skins
* 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:
tar xzvf xine-lib-1.0.tar.gz <------enter
cd xine-lib-1.0 <-----enter
./configure <-----enter
make <-----enter
make install <-----enter
make clean <----enter
rm -rf xine-lib-1.0 <---enter
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:
rpm -ivh ncurses-5.4-13.i386.rpm
now lets install the frontend:
tar xzvf xine-ui-0.99.3.tar.gz <----enter
cd xine-ui-0.99.3 <---enter
./configure <----enter
make <----enter
make install <---enter
make clean <----enter
rm -rf xine-ui-0.99.3 <----enter
If all goes right without errors then now download the codecs:
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/essential-20050216.tar.bz2
commands:
tar xjvf essential-20050216.tar.bz2 <---enter
mkdir /usr/local/lib/win32 ; cp -ar essential-20050216/* /usr/local/lib/win32/ <----enter
cd /usr/local/lib/ <---enter
ln win32 codecs <---enter
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:
xine
If you want another skin here it is:
http://xinehq.de/index.php/skins