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>Fedora Multimedia Installation HOWTO</H1
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>Eric Steven Raymond</A
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>Revision History</B
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>Revision 5.1</TD
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>2006-03-25</TD
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>Revised by: esr</TD
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>Simplified and corrected some FC5 instructions.</TD
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>Revision 5.0</TD
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>2006-03-21</TD
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>Update for Fedora Core 5. On the one hand, we can get almost
everything from livna now, which simplifies life. On the other
hand, Totem and Xine are both completely broken.</TD
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>2005-10-09</TD
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>Update for Fedora Core 4. The fedora.us repositories have become
Fedora Extras. Adobe Acrobat plugin no longer seems to be
necessary, xpdf and evince must have gotten better.</TD
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>2004-11-07</TD
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>Update for Fedora Core 3.</TD
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>Corrections for 2.6.8 kernel and Mozilla 1.7.</TD
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>2004-08-03</TD
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>RealPlayer 10 is out in open source. This changes some things.</TD
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>2004-07-14</TD
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>Updated for FC2. Removed up2date methods, as FC2 update seems
to be broken.</TD
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>2004-01-31</TD
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>Dag Wieers's repository is yum-enabled, so drop apt-get out
of the picture. Add mozilla-acroread installation. Add some
attack-lawyer repellant.</TD
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>Revision 1.0</TD
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>2004-01-30</TD
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>Initial release.</TD
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>How to get various proprietary and restricted multimedia Damned
Things (AVI, Flash, Java, MP3, MPEG, QuickTime, RealMedia,
Windows Media) working under Fedora Core using your normal package-management
tools. Includes Firefox-plugin instructions. Now with coverage of both
32- and 64-bit Intel-architecture systems.</P
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>Unfortunately, the news in FC5 is almost all bad. Totem and Xine
are both completely broken.</P
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>1. <A
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>1.1. <A
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>New versions of this document</A
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>2. <A
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>Packages, Tools and Repositories</A
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>3. <A
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>Security considerations and other risks</A
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>4. <A
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>Macromedia Flash</A
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>5. <A
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>gstreamer and ffmpeg support</A
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>6. <A
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>MP3</A
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>7. <A
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>Java</A
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>8. <A
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>RealAudio and RealVideo</A
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>MPEG, QuickTime, AVI, and DVDs</A
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>Test pages for Web streaming</A
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>11. <A
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>Related Resources</A
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>License and Copyright</A
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