How to Enable Multimedia Support (MP3, Mpeg4, Divx, 3gp, avi) in Fedora 13

How to Enable Multimedia support in Fedora 13

By default fedora will not support MP3, AVI, Divx, 3gp, Mpeg4 etc.

Simply you can add this features in Fedora 13


Open a terminal and become root or Login as root user, then run this command:



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

Install all other plug-ins

# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

After successful installation you can rum MP3 files


You can install Popular Media VCD/DVD Player with MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs Support by using the following command


# yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss

Doing this will also install a number of support libraries, including the libdvdcss plugin

Install Popular VLC Player in Fedora 13 by using the following
# rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
# yum -y install vlc


XMMS
Try the following for install xmms and make it MP3-capable

# yum install xmms xmms-mp3

How to Enable Third Party Repositories for Install MP3/DVD/MPEG ( Multimedia Files ) in Fedora 12

For Intalling Non-Free  applications Like MP3, DVD, MPEG, Binary Drivers, etc, in Fedora 12 You have to inatall  a third party repository. The recommended repository for Fedora is: RPMFusion.

How To set up the RPMFusion repositories in Fedora: 

Open a terminal and Type the following

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

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

After adding this repositories you can Install Multimedia Applications

How to Setup Yum and Yum Plugins in Fedora 12

Like apt in Debian /Ubuntu , Fedora uses yum to install and update its softwares from Internet. When connected to the internet it will automatically determine application dependencies.
Fedora typically has 2 repositories enabled by default: fedora and updates

While lot of plugins are available for  yum . Fedora 12 and newer enable yum-presto which should try to download only updated portions of packages instead of the full package during updates. Some experianced  users use the fastestmirror plugin which find faster sources for speeds up downloads.

How to install fastestmirror plugin in fedora 12

then type 

$ sudo yum install yum-plugin-fastestmirror

How to Install Skype in Fedora 12

The new version of Fedora 12 is released. You can install famous communication software skype in fedora 12 using some simple steps.

• Hardware requirements
• 1 Ghz processor or faster.
• 256 MB RAM.
• 20 MB free disk space on your hard drive.
• Microphone and speakers or headset.
• Internet connection – broadband is best (GPRS is not supported for voice calls).
• Video card driver with Xv support.

• Software requirements
• Qt 4.2.1+
• D-Bus 1.0.0
• libasound2 1.0.12
• PulseAudio 0.9.10+ (optional)
• PulseAudio 0.9.15+ (optional recommended)

Technical details
Version 2.1.0.47

Download Skype for fedora from here

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