Hello Nikhil, Nikhil Karkare wrote: > Hi, > The subject might sound senseless, but I was at a loss of words for > the subject! :-) > > 1. I am trying to set up a Linux box (FC3) which will be used just to > play a demo AVI that I have made. > I need to configure it so that when it starts up, it automatically > starts playing the AVI - without logging in, or running anything. Sounds like you need movix. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMoviX : -------------------------- eMoviX is a small bootable version of Linux, similar to Knoppix, that, when booted will automatically start playing all the video files stored in the root directory. eMoviX only occupies about 8 megabytes of space of the CD/DVD leaving the rest for video files. The video is played by a program call MPlayer, a popular open source movie player. EMoviX supports all the video formats the MPlayer does; this includes DivX, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, WMV and RealVideo, among others. Subtitles are also supported. EMoviX will boot on computers that support x86 and has at least 36 megabytes of RAM.
Creating an eMoviX CD/DVD can be done with software such as MoviXMaker-2 or K3b. -------------------------- Here is the home page, unfortunately, it seems as though it is going through an upgrade: http://movix.sourceforge.net/ > Now, isn't yum supposed to get the missing depencies itself? Umm ...ehe ..yes it is. Actually the problem with Red Hat / fedora packages is that there are way too many packagers and eventually, the dependency resolution boils down to how well the package creator described the dependencies. By the way, have you considered using Mandrake ? One of the MAIN reasons I use Mandr(ake/)iva is because of urpmi, tool similar to yum but waaaay cooler. I can elaborate on that if anyone is interested. Regards Steve __________________________________ Yahoo! for Good - Make a difference this year. http://brand.yahoo.com/cybergivingweek2005/ -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: ([email protected]) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
