Video, MP3 Plug-ins for Fedora

If you’ve chosen Fedora as your desktop, rejoice! By adding a few pieces software, you can turn your Penguin into a complete audio and video extravaganza.

Jason Perlow

Wednesday, June 15th, 2005

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The October 2004 issue of Linux Magazine (available online at http://www.linux-mag.com/2004-10/) showed how to keep Fedora up-to-date using the yum, up2date, and apt-get tools. It also highlighted some additional plug-ins and applications that you could download from third-party repositories to add crucial multimedia functions otherwise missing in the distribution.

This month, let’s revisit those software packages in more detail. With a little tweaking, you’ll have a complete audio and video extravaganza. And if you’re a Red Hat Enterprise Workstation 4 (RH4) user, you’ll find (for the most part) that what works for Fedora Core 3 (FC3) also works for RH4 as well.

We’ve got a lot of software to install, so let’s get cracking.

Getting APT

If you don’t yet have APT installed, get it now, because it’s going to make your life a lot easier. If you’re using RH4 or FC3, you can download it from the DAG website at http://dag.wieers.com/packages/apt/. (Read more about DAG in the sidebar “Dig DAG.”)

Dig DAG

DAG is part of a new file repository network known as RPMForge, which includes FreshRPMS, dries, DAG and PlanetCCRMA. Not only does this network provide the added packages that you need for multimedia and all kinds of other good stuff, but it also serves as a FC3 update mechanism for the base operating system. Once you have this version of APT, updates are a breeze. Issuing apt-get update; apt-get upgrade from the command-line will…

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