On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 19:28, D.Venkatasubramanian, Noida wrote: > Hi, > > I was looking for some Video player / Audio players for RHL 9.0. > > I found that Chip March, 2004 CDs had some Linux stuff, but they seem to > have missed quite a lot of rpms.[snip] Also, that he has lots of > bandwidth and can download innumerable rpms. >
installing mpeg decoders and things is equally 'difficult' under windoze, too. try installing multiple ones and tell me how you fare. the reason is due to the complexity of having different codecs, the low-level calls it could make to hardware, etc etc. > When will the time come when Linux will have Windows style Installers for > Linux, complete in all respects. well, this question is loaded. when people run into the equivalent of *.dll missing or file not found errors under windoze, their last resort is usually just a fresh install of the whole os. try fixing a decayed windoze os and you'll know what i mean. under linux, if you want painless installations. use apt-get and for a gui simple click operation, use synaptic on top. > > Has somebody been able to install any of the tools, mainly Video players on > Linux, RHL 9.0 standard installation. I have not upgraded any rpm in the > system since it was installed. And have no players that can play mpeg / dat > movies. > i installed videolanclient after installing mplayer. but i agree installations are a bit tough. if you want real simplicity just install the whole PCQLinux2004 distro. based on fedora core 1 with some updates, it features *all* that you want, straight out-of-the-box. :-) LL _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
