cant play movies on linux?

Question

i cant play movies on linux, it says that I need an mpeg aac decoder and H.264 decoder but when it serches for them it never finds them. please help. BTW i have fedora 12

Answer 1

Agreed about VLC. Use that. If you're open to change, I like the Ubuntu idea. Linux Mint, however, is the same damn thing as Ubuntu with medibuntu repo added. Not sure why Mint even exists since it's so similar, however Ubuntu/Mint are both good choices in the Debian class of Linux distros.



I know when I ran Fedora for a short time I had to add RPMFusion (Fedora's version of Ubuntu's Medibuntu Repo) which gave me codecs - however VLC should have a lot of them already integrated.

Answer 2

Without knowing what kind of graphics card/chip you have, it's a bit hard to say. Most likely reason is that the linux graphics driver you're using isn't as well written or configured as the windows equivalent. Try installing the proprietary driver using 'hardware drivers' in the system settings.

Answer 3

I would try using vlc player for it, I am used to debian based distro's, but I know VLC handles just about everything. (I would strongly recommend giving Linux Mint a try if you haven't its the best distro I have used, and it uses the lovely deb packages as it is built on ubuntu, but the flash support in 64 bit actually works flawlessly.)



If you use debian distro's you can add the packages via mediubuntu site and run dvd's and other movies with whatever player you want.

Answer 4

Hi,



Follow the steps -



-> Download VMware Workstation.



-> Install Workstation.



-> Insert your Windows installation disc. Open VMware and follow the instructions on screen to install Windows. Once the installation is complete, you will be able to run Windows inside of Linux, using virtualization technology.



-> Navigate to Netflix.com and select a video you would like to watch instantly. You should be prompted to download Silverlight and, once you do so, you should be able to watch Netflix's streaming movies on your Linux PC.





Thanks

Eric

Answer 5

Go download VLC media player.



It'll let you watch DVD movies on Linux.

Answer 6

Based on your description it seems like your trying to play blu-ray rips. Blu-ray movies are difficult to play without the right hardware(cpu, motherboard, video card) regardless of Operating System. If you don't have very up-to-date hardware, blu-ray rips(H.264) will not play smoothly if at all.



If you have a nvidia card or nvidia based motherboard, I would suggest you try Mplayer with Vdpau support.