quote:Original post by Cibressus
I can''t get the linux version of divx to work. are thier any alternitives,

Find a "codec pack" for your distribution. FFmpeg and Xvid cover most codecs.

quote:Original post by Cibressus
or s thier a way to retrive my terminals messages. it openns up, spits out some text before i can read it, then closes.

Find out the name of the executable and run it in a terminal. You can redirect the output of the program if that''s insufficient. More information than you probably need on IO redirection can be found here.

quote:Original post by Cibressus
also, i can no longer listen to Digitaly imported. are thier any .pls players?

Most players that can handle streaming audio know what to do with URLs in a Winamp-style playlist file (XMMS and Rhythmbox should handle it just fine, for example). If nothing else works for you, open the file in a text editor and get the URL(s) out of it and play that.

quote:Original post by Cibressus
msuic player says it has to be a ogg stream.

Red Hat is known to not include any ways to play MP3s (due to legal issues), you have to install the MP3 libraries and plug-ins afterward; if that''s your issue, see FreshRPMs for the necessary packages.

If that''s not the problem, use a different media player application that isn''t limited in that way.

try xmms (www.xmms.org) "as WinAMP" and MPlayer (www.mplayerhq.hu) "as Media Player". i installed both from source... DivX & .pls work fine... i''m listening to ''Digitally Imported'' every day... no problems at all :D

I wasn''t aware that xmms depends mpg123 (/321)

in fact, i''m pretty sure it does not