<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="introduction.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Eric Steven Raymond</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><SPAN CLASS="orgname" ><A HREF="http://www.catb.org/~esr/" TARGET="_top" >Thyrsus Enterprises</A ><BR></SPAN ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 5.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2006-03-25</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Simplified and corrected some FC5 instructions.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 5.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2006-03-21</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Update for Fedora Core 5. On the one hand, we can get almost everything from livna now, which simplifies life. On the other hand, Totem and Xine are both completely broken.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 4.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2005-10-09</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Update for Fedora Core 4. The fedora.us repositories have become Fedora Extras. Adobe Acrobat plugin no longer seems to be necessary, xpdf and evince must have gotten better.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 3.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-11-07</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Update for Fedora Core 3.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-09-07</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Corrections for 2.6.8 kernel and Mozilla 1.7.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-08-03</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >RealPlayer 10 is out in open source. This changes some things.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 2.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-07-14</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Updated for FC2. Removed up2date methods, as FC2 update seems to be broken.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-02-03</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Typo fixes.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-01-31</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Dag Wieers's repository is yum-enabled, so drop apt-get out of the picture. Add mozilla-acroread installation. Add some attack-lawyer repellant.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-01-30</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: esr</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Initial release.</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN62" ></A ><P ></P ><P >How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned Things (AVI, Flash, Java, MP3, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia, Windows Media) working under Fedora Core using your normal package-management tools. Includes Firefox-plugin instructions. Now with coverage of both 32- and 64-bit Intel-architecture systems.</P ><P >Unfortunately, the news in FC5 is almost all bad. Totem and Xine are both completely broken.</P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="introduction.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="introduction.html#newversions" >New versions of this document</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="x82.html" >Packages, Tools and Repositories</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="x126.html" >Security considerations and other risks</A ></DT ><DT >4. <A HREF="x133.html" >Macromedia Flash</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="x157.html" >gstreamer and ffmpeg support</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="x165.html" >MP3</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="x175.html" >Java</A ></DT ><DT >8. <A HREF="x184.html" >RealAudio and RealVideo</A ></DT ><DT >9. <A HREF="x192.html" >MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs</A ></DT ><DT >10. <A HREF="x202.html" >Test pages for Web streaming</A ></DT ><DT >11. <A HREF="resources.html" >Related Resources</A ></DT ><DT >12. <A HREF="license.html" >License and Copyright</A ></DT ><DT >13. <A HREF="acknowledgements.html" >Acknowledgements</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="introduction.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >
