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BTW Mark
Can you give me a step by step on how to install a wmv codec in CentOS
for movie player? CentOS is working well but I still don't have the
wireless
working on my Asus Notebook.
Paul Lamar
For A/V files you need to have the appropriate codecs. I suggest you go
to
http://www.fluendo.com/ where you can find all the A/V software you
probably need. I use both their codec package and their DVD player
software. The prices are reasonable.
Windows wmv files work with Gstreamer. You will need the appropriate
codec which is included in the Fluendo codec package.
There are other workaround methods but they get progressively more
complicated as each new workaround begins to conflict with other
workarounds and with base functionality.
You can enable software repositories like rpmfusion where you can
install vlc which is an A/V program. It will work but you will have a
minor conflict, that is safe to ignore, with the H-264 library package.
CentOS will notify you that the package is out of date and that there
is an update available for it but the update will not install because
some of the vlc packages depend on the out of date H-264 library.
As for the wireless interface, I would post a support request to the
CentOS user mailing list. Mail List CentOS Users <
centos@centos.org
I've had good results with this group. They will want to know what
version of CentOS you are using.
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ uname -a
Linux mushroom.patch 2.6.32-279.14.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Nov 6 21:05:14
UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$
They will want to know what model of laptop you are using.
They will want to know what wireless chip you have. The chip is
probably detectable with the lspci command. If you can figure out what
chip you have you might be able to find the appropriate Linux driver
with a little bit of google work.
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$ lspci
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II]
(rev 78)
[mlapier@mushroom ~]$
Most of the time you will be able to figure out which driver you need to
install. If you can figure out what chip you have tell me and I'll do
the google work if you need.
Mark LaPierre
Thanks Mark. I'll wait awhile until I am in a better position to do
all that. How soon do you think CentOS will come out with a more
modern version? I don't care for Mint but it has all that built in.
Paul Lamar
CentOS tracks Red Hat Enterprise Edition. When Red Hat releases a new
Enterprise Edition CentOS will follow along soon after.
Don't expect a great deal of change from one release to another. This
is not a development release, it is a stable commercial release. No
leading edge applications here. All that fancy new stuff is in the
rpmfusion repos. None of that is in the base install.
Point upgrades, from 6.3 go 6.4, will happen automatically by the
software updater software. If you haven't configured it yet go to
System/Preferences/Software Updates.
Mark LaPierre
Thanks again Mark. So far it is REAL stable.
I just found joe (AKA Wordstar) thankfully and installed it.
Joe still does a lot of things that most editors cannot do.
Been using DOS Wordstar since the late 70's :)
CentOS Administration Add/Remove Software could not find it.
Paul Lamar
CentOS Administration Add/Remove Software only finds software that is
contained in the configures repos that yum would use.
Look in /etc/yum.repos.d to find all the repo files.
yum list will list all the configured repos. The output will scroll off
the top of the terminal so redirect the output to a file like this:
yum clean all
yum list yumlist.txt
view yumlist.txt
Mark LaPierre
Paul,
I have a tar file of codecs. Every time I build a new machine I
drop them in '
/usr/lib/codecs/'. The file is about 5 years old and has
some new ones still missing. The winblows codec DLLs work on linux
systems. I would like be illegal or something to distribute Microsoft,
Qicktime, or RealAudio DLLs with your Linux distribution. The file I
have is 14M and is from 2007_10_07. I guess I need to update the
codecs on my virtual winblows machine at work and then package them
up.
Blake
That would be nice for my CentOS machine. I am using Mint with Mate
on the Asus notebook and it comes with all known codecs. It also
works well with the built in wireless adapter.
For some strange reason it has not crashed for the
last couple of weeks :) I took the HD out and installed Mint on a
16G USB thumb drive. I did not allow it to update. Henry Nee is of
the opinion that is always a bad idea. After I also had bad results
with that I have come to the same conclusion.
If it ain't broke don't fix it :)
I am thinking it is about time to try Mint on the HD again.
I notice that once an OS is installed on a HD that drive cannot be read
with another OS or computer. I have a Sata to USB adapter and that does
not work either. Does the OS partition prevent reading?
Must I remove that partition to read the rest of the data?
Will "Gparted" do that?
How?
I took a look at Gparted and the
user interface is not intuitive for me. I don't want to screw
up and lose some data.
Perhaps there is another way to remove or bypass the boot partition
and read the drive in the command line.?
Paul Lamar
You will not be able to read the drive from Windows. Linux generally
uses EXT4 file systems. Windows uses NTFS. Remember when you needed to
add an NTFS driver to your Linux box to read the giant economy size USB
key? Same thing in reverse for Windows except that I don't think there
is a Windows driver to read EXT4 file systems.
You should be able to read from the disk on another Linux machine. It
might be a bit tricky figuring out which partition to mount. The newer
Linux distributions use a new system to manage device names. They are
likely to come up with something strange sounding. CentOS will call
them /dev/sda, /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc etc ... for each drive as it maps it.
If you have the disk in an external enclosure it might mount it on
/media with a volume number.
Mark LaPierre
I set up CentOS to read NTFS and it is working.
Mint reads NTFS out of the box but the MINT OS did not even see it.
Neither did Windows. I think it is going to take partitioning software
to even see the drive.
I did not try the command line. I'll do that next with the USB to
SATA adpater.
Paul Lamar
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