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« Reply #30 on: 30 January 2003, 06:13 »
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Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Commando:
I hate windows so I tried linux and still am toying with it, but I switche to Mac, never looked back.  Linux is pretty easy if u use the preinstalled.  On RH8 you almost can't do that because none of it can play MP3's (for legal reasons).  I havn't been able to get xine to install, and every time I have in the past I was never able to play DVD's.  Until linux has the install capabilities of Windows or even better, the Mac.  It will always be too hard for the "basic" user.


Installing Mandrake 9.0 was easier for me than Windows 98.  And it does come with MP3 playback by default.  (For the record, it seems the patent issues with MP3's turned out to be misunderstandings, and I'm under the impression that Red Hat will include MP3 playback by default in the next release)

Having many packages/programs to choose from can be quite daunting for a new user.  I usually recommend just going with whatever the program picks by default.  You can always uninstall later.

As far as installing other programs, RPM has come a long way, and with things like apt-get and urpmi, it's not as hard as people make it out to be.
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« Reply #31 on: 30 January 2003, 13:12 »
well it's really easy to add mp3 capability to red hat, i found, but i still have not got any linux system to successfully play a dvd, despite trying.
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« Reply #32 on: 30 January 2003, 18:53 »
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but i still have not got any linux system to successfully play a dvd, despite trying.


I've never tried to play DVDs with MPlayer but it works for any audio/video formats I have. It has DVD support so guess you should try.
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« Reply #33 on: 30 January 2003, 19:22 »
oh i have been trying, i will make it work one day...
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« Reply #34 on: 30 January 2003, 19:47 »
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Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
oh i have been trying, i will make it work one day...


Good luck

BTW rc1 and rc2 seemed to me buggy... Check rc3.
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« Reply #35 on: 1 February 2003, 13:43 »
Red Hat 8.0, its really good..remember to enable DNS for the mail server
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« Reply #36 on: 1 February 2003, 20:33 »
Personally, I've never had much of a desire to watch DVD's on my computer.  To me, that's what a TV and DVD player is for.  

However, getting a DVD drive is an affordable alternative for, say, college students that don't have a whole lot of space in their dorm room and not a lot of money to spend.  That way, they can still rent DVD's to watch once in a while.  

So, getting a DVD drive does have its merits.  I just personally have no need for one.
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« Reply #37 on: 1 February 2003, 20:40 »
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Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
oh i have been trying, i will make it work one day...


did you never manage to get it working in mplayer?
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« Reply #38 on: 2 February 2003, 01:49 »
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Originally posted by Calum: Member # 81:
oh i have been trying, i will make it work one day...


Slightly ironic. Mplayer did DVD fine after my first install of it.
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« Reply #39 on: 5 February 2003, 21:23 »
Winblows = Advertising & Infotainment Delivery System (AIDS)
Linux = Kernel, Yes linux is the kernel.
FreeBSD = Oerating System (OS)

AIDS = Where do you want to be herded today?
Linux = Where do you want to go tomorrow?
FreeBSD = Are you all coming or what?
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« Reply #40 on: 5 February 2003, 14:47 »
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did you never manage to get it working in mplayer?


no, although windows media video and quicktime now play fine (except i cannot seem to install any skins or gui or anything, this may be because i installed mplayer from source and all the skins i have are rpms et c, and no the --force --nodeps doesn't help) but dvd doesn't work at all. I only have a celery 700 though (well i have another p3 850Mhz i might try it on next) so maybe that is the problem on it's own.
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« Reply #41 on: 5 February 2003, 15:58 »
have you definitely installed the gui?
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« Reply #42 on: 5 February 2003, 18:23 »
as i say, i install the gui and skins with 'rpm -Uvh --force --nodeps' because the rpm database does not show that mplayer is installed, as i installed it from a tar.gz but no dice, gmplayer still doesn't work and i still get a message about no skin found when i open something with mplayer. but it works and that's the main thing.
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« Reply #43 on: 5 February 2003, 19:11 »
oh yes you said, sorry.
did you specify the --enable-gui option when running configure, as per the instructions?
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« Reply #44 on: 5 February 2003, 19:27 »
yup! that's why i am confused.
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