**Running SuSe 10.1 Beta 6** 1. I am running an ATI Radeon 9800 Pro. On ATI's drivers for linux, there is an Installer package as ".run", and there are these X-Windows versions using ".rpm" -XFree86 4.1 -XFree86 4.2 -XFree86 4.3 -X.Org 6.8 Which one would I install, and why? 2. I have 2 Hard drives. I know how to navigate to each drive from "My Computer" and then Storage Devices. I'm assuming since I can browse them, they are mounted. I want to know the path to the drive so I can set a Share on it using SAMBA, ex: /mnt/hdb/ ? 3. Which media player would fit my needs 100%? I occaisionally play DVD's, I listen to a lot of music(mp3 files mostly), and I watch video's such as .avi's, etc. That's all for now, I'll probably have more in a few days
The X.Org version. Why? Because your distro uses X.Org, not XFree86 as your X server. Perhaps the most easy and universal way to see what is mounted where is to either Code: cat /etc/fstab or Code: df I'm sure there are graphical tools in Suse which can accomplish this and look very pretty, but honestly I'm too lazy to look into it. Why put up with one piece of bloatware that claims to do everything *cough*WindowsMediaPlayer*cough* when you can use the right tools for the right job? I prefer Xine for DVDs, MPlayer for every other type of video, and amaroK for audio. If you prefer a lighter, Winamp-style audio player with less features look into Audacious. Just try a few apps, find the ones you like for each media type, and associate your files with them in the user interface of your choice (KDE?). All the best, -AT
My favourite peice of 'bloatware' as AT put it, is Kaffeine (which is pre-installed in SuSE). It plays practically anything you throw at it, although you need to install the right codecs first. Download these codecs and install them in YaST. libdvdcss xinelib1 win32codecs-all EDIT: I think you can obtain these files through YaST's online update. It means you won't have to bother manually installing them. Simply enter YaST and click 'online update'.
Thanks for the reply guys, and thanks for the codecs megamaced! That must be why I'm not able to play anything hehe. **edit** I tried finding the codecs with online update and it does not list them, I'll manually download them later. thanks. Oh, and I opened up KDiskFree, and well...here's a screenshot, the secondary disk is /dev/hdb/ . and apparently has an unknown file system that i can still browse? lol. anyways here it is http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1290/snapshot29pa.jpg
I don't use Kaffeine for audio, why would you? Amarok has a very good media library, Kaffeine's for the odd video.
Yes I agree with you there. While Kaffiene makes for a good video/DVD player, i'd much rather use Amarok for my music. .... I just can't get enough of Amarok :jump2: It's probably one of my favourite peices of software of all time!
[ot]I just find it hilarious that you get a media player already installed and it can play :swear: all..... Oh, you thought I was talking about WMP? I could be but Kaffeine and Totem are even more useless out of the box......[/ot] In linux I use Xine although it is not very palatable to look at. Probably need a good skin but then again I am looking at the movie not the skin...
It's not great I know, but it's not just Linux that is effected. You can't play AVI, Quicktime, Real or DVDs on Windows at first. You have to install the relevant programs. At least with Linux, you can obtain ALL of the codecs in one easy-to-install package (win32codecs-all). As for Xine - A agree that the front end is nasty. In fact, Xine is the only peice of software that has ever crashed on me in Linux!
Well everything installed fine like XMMS and Amarok. I guess the codecs just weren't installed for them because it won't playback anything whatsoever. I'll try later on when I get home.
I installed the win32codecs-all and I still can't play mp3 files. When I open up a song in amarok, it just says the playlist is complete. any suggestions? And another thing, I installed the graphics drivers from ATI..and they dont work? Or do I have to configure them somehow first?
The only codecs I needed to install were the DVD codec and win32 for WMV files. MP3 and all common formats were installed by default.
Ah! I've just worked out why you can't play mp3s 'straight-out-of-the-box'. You downloaded OpenSuSE which does not include any proprietory formats. My Amarok is using the helix engine, which is also used in Realplayer. Your Amorak is probably using Xine, which doesn't play mp3s. I suggest you download helix+reaplayer, then change the engine in Amarok's preferences
Thanks for the info! But I was talking with AT last night, and I've decided to try another distro, probably mandriva or gentoo.
Hehe, Well I'm sure AT doesn't hate SuSE - i'm sure he'd rather use it over Windows anyday. But compared to his Mandriva 2006 - nothing compares. Which is fair enough - each to their own. That's the great thing about Linux, there's so much choice.
