On Thursday 23 October 2003 06:42 am, Derek Jennings wrote:
> On Thursday 23 Oct 2003 12:56 am, Mike Adolf wrote:
> > I am looking at a language web site that has video and auto links.  When
> > activated from Windows/IE, real player one comes up and does its thing.
> > When I use Konqueror or Modzilla, a save/open dialog appears.  What
> > video/audio app do I use to open the files.  If I try to 'save' I get 135
> > B and it hangs. Bottom line: How can I configure Konqueror or Modzilla to
> > play video/audio.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > mike
>
> Well that depends on the "mime type" of the links you are trying to
> view/listen to.
> You must install an application/plugin for that mime type.
>
> A good place to start is to install mplayer (and mplayer-gui both in PLF)
> and its plugin (mplayerplugin RPM is in Contrib)
>
> Mplayer will handle most audio/video types including Windows media and
> Quicktime.
>
> You can also install RealPlayer RPM available from Texstar.
>
> If after installing these you still cannot view the content come back and
> tell us what the mime types are.
>
> Note: Contrib, PLF and Texstar are online software repositories. You can
> configure your Mandrake Software installer to search them and
> download/install packages for you if you go here
> http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/index.php
> and follow the instructions for adding them as 'urpmi' sources.
>
> derek
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Thanks derek,

From PLF site, I used Easy urpmi to Identify and load the sources you 
mentioned above. First I tried mplayer. It installed OK, but it would not 
play the video.  Then I found out that the file type I was downloading is 
.ram which has a mime type of realaudio. So, I installed RealPlayer and all 
works well. Urpmi is a pretty slick tool, especially since it knows what 
dependencies are needed.

What, if anything, will I need to do with urpmi after going to 9.2.  How do 
you know what aps need updating?

mike

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