Can't get AVI files to play

[badger_fruit]

Hi all
I am trying to get avi files to play; I've managed to get the sound, but no video
I tried google-searching but seem to have broken something else - the "package manager".

I read the instructions http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/0...ideos-and.html ... however, on one of the instructions I get this:-

[root@bgrlaptop badger_fruit]# yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree                                                                                
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit                                                               
Could not retrieve mirrorlist http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorlist?repo=free-fedora-11&arch=i386 error was                                                                                       
[Errno 14] HTTP Error 504: Gateway Time-out                                                       
Error: Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again

And now when I go into kpackagekit, I get the message "The package list needs to be rebuilt.
This should have been done by the backend automatically"

Anyone know how I can recover this and get libdvdcss and support for AVI (oh and MPEG) files?
(Please!)

This is Fedora 11 by the way using KDE.

[mouse_runner]

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
type ls, and post the output
did you install both free, and nonfree rpm's?

[badger_fruit]

[root@bgrlaptop badger_fruit]# cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]# ls
adobe-linux-i386.repo        rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
fedora-rawhide.repo          rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
fedora.repo                  rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
fedora-updates.repo          rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
fedora-updates-testing.repo  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo  rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
rpmfusion-free.repo
[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]#

I don't know exactly what I installed, the link in my OP shows the guide I was following, I got as far as "step" 3

Anyway, now I've found these files, I've removed the rpmfusion repositories like so :-

[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]# ls -l
total 52                           
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  179 2007-07-25 21:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1785 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-rawhide.repo  
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1144 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora.repo          
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1105 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-updates.repo  
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1163 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1301 2009-05-17 15:33 rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1145 2009-05-17 15:01 rpmfusion-free.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1200 2009-05-17 15:01 rpmfusion-free-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1260 2009-05-17 15:01 rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1355 2009-05-17 15:35 rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1190 2009-05-17 15:35 rpmfusion-nonfree.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1245 2009-05-17 15:35 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1305 2009-05-17 15:35 rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo
[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]# mv rpmfusion* /usr/share/
[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]# ls -l
total 20
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root  179 2007-07-25 21:45 adobe-linux-i386.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1785 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-rawhide.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1144 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1105 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-updates.repo
-rw-r--r--. 1 root root 1163 2009-05-11 23:45 fedora-updates-testing.repo

However, when I try to add libdvdcss, I get ...

[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]#  yum install xine xine-lib libdvdcss
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
Package xine-ui-0.99.5-16.fc11.i586 already installed and latest version
Package xine-lib-1.1.16.3-2.fc11.i586 already installed and latest version
No package libdvdcss available.
Nothing to do
[root@bgrlaptop yum.repos.d]#

Bah :\

[scottro]

Ok, you have rpmfusion. Now we try



yum search libdvdcss
Loaded plugins: downloadonly, presto
============================== Matched: libdvdcss ==============================
vobcopy.x86_64 : Utility to copy DVD .vob files to disk

You might also try

yum clean all

and see if that fixes the the error message.


Now this is on an F12 64 bit machine, so it might be different.

[badger_fruit]

hmm, is it possible the repo is down?!
I can't ping it or browse to the URL:
http://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/mirrorl...a-11&arch=i386

Which is where it's trying to reach ...
It won't even let me do the search as the last poster asked as it times-out.
I am posting using the same machine and can ping google etc no problem so it's not my network connection

[mouse_runner]

no

the repo is up:

]# yum install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit                                                                  
Setting up Install Process                                                                          
Resolving Dependencies                                                                              
--> Running transaction check                                                                       
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-bad.i586 0:0.10.13-7.fc11 set to be updated                          
--> Processing Dependency: libass.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586       
--> Processing Dependency: libdirac_encoder.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586
--> Processing Dependency: libmms.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586          
--> Processing Dependency: libiptcdata.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586     
--> Processing Dependency: libmimic.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586        
--> Processing Dependency: libexempi.so.3 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586       
--> Processing Dependency: libdirectfb-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586 
--> Processing Dependency: libfusion-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586   
--> Processing Dependency: libdca.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586          
--> Processing Dependency: libcdaudio.so.1 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586      
--> Processing Dependency: libdirect-1.2.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586   
--> Processing Dependency: libdirac_decoder.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586
--> Processing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586       
--> Processing Dependency: libcelt.so.0 for package: gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.13-7.fc11.i586         
---> Package gstreamer-plugins-ugly.i586 0:0.10.12-2.fc11 set to be updated  
et.etc.etc

[mouse_runner]

badger,

pls move back the repo's you had moved from the yum.repos.d .
They are correct

[mouse_runner]

or take a look at:
http://rpmfusion.org/Configuration

[badger_fruit]

Originally Posted by mouse_runner

badger,

pls move back the repo's you had moved from the yum.repos.d .
They are correct

Cool ... done ....
I've also checked that URL for RPM Fusion, thanks by the way, since I moved the rpmfusion* files BACK, I get a message saying that it's already installed (the repo I guess).

I tried once more to do the search for libdvdcss but it's still failing with time-out

EDIT >>>>>
just got a popup in KDE which reads:-
"Cannot retrieve repository metadata (repomd.xml) for repository: rpmfusion-free. Please verify its path and try again"

[badger_fruit]

OK, so, trolling around for a little while the repo seems to be reachable again so I did the search:-

[root@bgrlaptop badger_fruit]# yum search libdvdcss
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
============================================================ Matched: libdvdcss ============================================================
vobcopy.i586 : Utility to copy DVD .vob files to disk
[root@bgrlaptop badger_fruit]# yum install libdvdcss
Loaded plugins: refresh-packagekit
Setting up Install Process
No package libdvdcss available.
Nothing to do
[root@bgrlaptop badger_fruit]#

HELP!!!! Where is this elusive package?!

[scottro]

My apologies, I was not clear.

If you type yum search libdvdcss, it gives you back that vobcopy.i586. Running yum search is showing that libdvdcss is provided by vobcopy. (It looks through the package description, and rpm -qi vocopy contains

Description :
Vobcopy copies DVD .vob files to disk, decrypting them on the way (thanks to
libdvdread and libdvdcss) and merges them into file(s) with the name extracted

(Running rpm -qi on an installed package gives extra information about that package.

Another handy one is, if you try to start a program, and get an error like, can't locate libwhatever.so.0, assuming that doing yum search libwhatever comes back with no matching packages, is

yum provides */libwhatever.so.0

This goes through packages and sees what libraries and such they provide.

[badger_fruit]

Alright, so it's installed vobcopy but didn't seem to include libdvdcss .. oh well, least of my worries!
AVI files still won't play and neither will MPEGs
Any ideas on these two please?


EDIT >>>>>
It's almost the middle of the night here so I'm going to call it a day but while trolling and google-ing, I discovered this URL which *may* solve this ...
http://fedorasolved.org/multimedia-s...s/win32-codecs

I'll give it a go tomorrow anyway and see what happens ... fingers/flippers crossed please!!
(And thanks to those who have tried to help me so far!)

[badger_fruit]

Installed SMPlayer and now I have AVI support. Stupid Totem.
Not tried MPEG but going on the above will guess it's going to be OK now.
Thanks for suggestions guys, appreciated!

[scottro]

Yeah, mplayer seems to include all the other things. I lost the forest for the trees in this thread. I should have just said do yum install mplayer.
(Although at first, the trouble seemed to be with reaching the repos, in my own defense.)

[badger_fruit]

No need to apologise! Your help was appreciated and as a fedora newbie, it was like the sky was falling in lol! Yeah, yum install smplayer worked and that's the media player I use on my Suse machines so quite happy with it (plus, my 9yr old and 4yr old children will also appreciate the familiarity).

Best regards
Badger