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On Friday 17 Oct 2003 2:30 pm, richard.fuller1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I've installed RedHat 9 and it seems (?) that the basic personal > install does not include a multi-purpose media player. > > CD player yes, CD ripper yes but not a media player that will play > .avi's .......mpg's........wav........mov.........mp3...........asf > etc. I'm a tad surprised that RH9 didn't put XMMS in the Multimedia menu for KDE but it sounds like you'd appreciate a more friendly distro like Yoper where the KDE menus are renamed to less cryptic names - Play a CD, Play an MP3 etc. instead of kscd and xmms. > If anyone is familiar with RedHat 9 can they tell me of a good all > round Media player in the Distribution ??..and is it as easy as double > clicking on the file to get it to install (?) (probably not I rather > feel, we are not in windows territory now young man.) It is almost that easy in KDE or Nautilus, but then you moved to Linux for a reason and this is one part of that reason - you'll be required to give the root password before the system will 'execute an arbitrary executable' (in Windows speak), in this case an installable RPM. We don't want Johnny Jnr. installing a rootkit/trojan/spyware agent now do we? -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.codehelp.co.uk/ http://www.dclug.org.uk/ http://www.isbn.org.uk/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/isbnsearch/ http://www.biglumber.com/x/web?qs=0x8801094A28BCB3E3
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