Play DIVX videos with the VLC media player

[Bor]

UPDATE JULY 2009

The instructions in my original post (see below) are no longer valid because rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm is no longer available. I didn’t notice this until I tried to reinstall my VLC player.

I found part of the solution to this problem on macles.blogspot.com. This blog gives the following instructions for installing the VLC player.

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To install VLC just add both repositories and use yum.

wget http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fed ... noarch.rpm
[point with your mouse to this address to see the complete url]

wget http://rpms.kwizart.net/kwizart-release-8.rpm

sudo rpm -U *release*rpm

sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc mozilla-vlc
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I opened a terminal and entered the lines above. A lot was installed, but I was informed that some dependencies were missing. However, I was able to solve this problem by entering this line:

sudo yum install fedora-release

Next I repeated the installation of the VLC player:
sudo yum install --enablerepo=kwizart-testing vlc mozilla-vlc

That solved my problem. Now everything is working fine.

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OLD INSTRUCTIONS

The MPlayer that is installed on the Aspire One does not play divx videos. Fortunately, there is a simple solution. Open a Terminal and enter the following lines (including the URL):

#> su -
#> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
#> yum install vlc

Answer Y(es) when asked.

This will automatically install the VLC media player for Fedora 8, that enables you to watch divx videos.

(To open a Terminal go to Files > My Documents and open the File Manager. Then go to File > Terminal. If you already did the Hack to enable the advanced desktop mode, you can right click on your desktop and select the Terminal.)

I don’t know anything about Linux, but I found this solution on a French website:
http://www.mobifrance.com/articles/eboo ... hp?id=1000

[2manydjs]

Thanks for the hint! If you want to add this to your desktop tray, link to /usr/share/applications/livna-vlc.desktop .

[Zadingo]

Your instructions were complete and easy to follow. This is the kind of useful post that I look forward to seeing more of in this forum. Thank you very much!

[Kev50027]

That was very helpful for a Linux newbie, now could you help me install Pidgin? I keep getting an error saying I'm missing libpurple when typing yum install pidgin.

Thanks!

[oncledams]

To use vlc plugin in firefox for some websites, it's better to use this:

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install vlc
yum install python-vlc mozilla-vlc

works fine

[pattyadams]

To use vlc plugin in firefox for some websites, it's better to use this:

su -
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
yum install vlc
yum install python-vlc mozilla-vlc

works fine

Hi I've done this but when I double click on the vlc icon on my desktop I get a message saying 'Unable to open %U"'
I can ignore the message, close the box and still use vlc but it's annoying me. I know I have to edit my vlc desktop config file but keep getting denied permission when attempting to open it in root. If anyone can help (in simple terms... I'm new to Linux) I'd really appreciate it.

Umm it's OK, I worked it out, was trying to edit the file directly instead of using mousepad!

[downdown]

im getting this error message please help

Error: Missing Dependency: libpulse.so.0(PULSE_0) is needed by package vlc
Error: Missing Dependency: libopendaap.so.0 is needed by package vlc-core
Error: Missing Dependency: libdvdnav.so.4 is needed by package vlc-core

[vzmr82]

The MPlayer that is installed on the Aspire One does not play divx videos. Fortunately, there is a simple solution. Open a Terminal and enter the following lines (including the URL):

#> su -
#> rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-8.rpm
#> yum install vlc

Answer Y(es) when asked.

This will automatically install the VLC media player for Fedora 8, that enables you to watch divx videos.

(To open a Terminal go to Files > My Documents and open the File Manager. Then go to File > Terminal. If you already did the Hack to enable the advanced desktop mode, you can right click on your desktop and select the Terminal.)

I don’t know anything about Linux, but I found this solution on a French website:
http://www.mobifrance.com/articles/eboo ... hp?id=1000

This worked fine, I have VLC running on my AcerOne. But I having problems with VLC dropping subtitles. Every other subtitle, it is not showing it. Sound and Video appears ok.

Any ideas?

Thnks. RS.

[oxerife]

vzmr82,

Go to Preferences -> Input / Codecs -> Other codecs -> Subtitles, and set Subtitle text encoding to the right one.

I selected iso-8859-1 and its working.

[vzmr82]

vzmr82,

Go to Preferences -> Input / Codecs -> Other codecs -> Subtitles, and set Subtitle text encoding to the right one.

I selected iso-8859-1 and its working.

Thanks, that's it. Working! (Strange, I don't have to do this in Windows or in Mac)....