Study Notes

I installed Mandriva 2K7 in my home PC. Fix the problem using KMPlay to play rmvb media. KMplayer can support the following types: GStream, xine and MPlayer. First, xine and Mplayer are able to play Mpeg format. When I try to open a rmvb file, Mplayer has only the sound without pictures, and it seems that xine does not support realplayer media.

As google suggestion, I set plf as Mandriva update source, and issue the below commands:

# urpmi xine-faad
# urpmi xine-flac
# urpmi real-codecs
# urpmi win32-codecs

Only flad can be installed,”xine-faad”,”real-codecs” and “win32-codecs” packagea are not found in the plf source. Hmm, I have to manually download the relevant packages from “rpm.pbone.net”. Note, “libstdc++5-3.3.6-3mdk.i586.rpm” is needed before install real-codes and win32-codes.

#wget ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/plf/mandrake/2007.1/non-free/release/binary/i586/real-codecs-1.2-3plf.i586.rpm
#wget ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/mandrake/official/2007.0/extra/i586/libstdc++5-3.3.6-3mdk.i586.rpm
#wget ftp://mandrake.contactel.cz/plf/mandrake/2007.0/non-free/release/binary/i586/win32-codecs-1.8-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm

# rpm -ivh libstdc++5-3.3.6-3mdk.i586.rpm
# rpm -ivh real-codecs-1.2-3plf.i586.rpm
# rpm -ivh win32-codecs-1.8-1plf2007.0.i586.rpm

OK, the KMplayer can play rmvb now.However, Mplayer trouble still exists.