FC2 & multimedia

[Advent Systems]

Steve,
    Thats how it happened, got it 95% set and it blows up!  Thanks for 
the info.  I,m going to give FC2 a whole hearted try first and try some 
of the things Jesse suggested.  If that dont work I'll try BLAG before 
taking Linux off. :( 

Thanks,
Bob Randal

Stephen Burke wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have just finished installing BLAG linux ( 
> http://www.blagblagblag.org/ ) to replace a SuSE 8.2 system that fried 
> in various ways I do not yet fully understand, practically the same 
> day that I had finally gotten it configured to play just about any 
> media file I could find. It appears, from the installation and startup 
> visuals, that it is based on FCx, so it will probably run on your 
> machine. I am still trying to rebuild something resembling the SuSE 
> system that died, so I am just tasting the flavor of this particular 
> linux. So far, it seems to be very madia friendly (xmms {with mp3 
> support}, mplayer, xine, etc, all on one CD). I did an "Everything" 
> install to save time on package selection and since I have more than 
> enough room on this HD, so I am confident that there is much more here 
> that I have not even discovered yet.
>
> I would recommend it highly.
>
> I know that RH took mp3 functionality out of 9 (easily replaced with 
> rpms from somewhere out there), but I'm not sure what fedora does, 
> since, until now, I have only used a couple of FC installations 
> briefly, as I have not been able to get Samba running properly on it. 
> Same here with blag, so far, except this time I am determined to get 
> it working, since it also comes with XFce and blackbox window 
> managers, which is nice. No KDE, though, so kaffeine, one of the 
> better media players I have found, could be tricky to install.
>
> Any help with Samba on fedora would be most welcome. Thanks.
>
> Hope it works for you,
> /*S.*/
>
> Advent Systems wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>    This my be a really stupid question but does anyone know if you 
>> can play multimedia files in FC2, mp3 files for starters?  If you 
>> read my previous posts I'm using FC2 for the first time.  I was 
>> unable to purchase a boxed set so I have no manuals, the xmms site 
>> (my favorite player) only supports FC1 and other sites seem to imply 
>> FC2 is not multimedia friendly.  Since I work in the AV industry I 
>> need something at least as usable as suse or mandrake.  I dont need 
>> it to do actual production work as I use industry specific windows 
>> based programs for this at work.  Any advice on a multimedia friendly 
>> based distro would help.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Bob Randal
>> PS: I all reddy tried coral Linux, RH7, mandrake 8 & 9, and suse  
>> 8.   They worked fine  as far as the  multimedia aspect but  as you 
>> see from my previous posts  in the past week FC2 is the only distro 
>> that  will not lockup my computer.   I'm sure I  could  put suse back 
>> on  right now and it may run fine for a few days but thats nuts.  If  
>> I cant find something it's back to  windows for a while  :(
>>
>> BR
>>
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