HOW TO PLAY,CONVERT MEDIA FILES USING LINUX COMMANDS

hi friends,
recently i came across some interesting Linux commands to play multimedia files and to convert them to a different formats, say for example mp3 to .wav.

first let us see how to play multimedia files from command lines:

-> to play mp3 files:

mplayer filename.mp3

for this,mplayer has to be installed or you can use any other players

-> to play video files:

vlc filename.avi

then how to convert the files to other formats??????

There are plenty of tools that to convert an MP3 file into WAV format. I prefer mpg321 which is a free command-line mp3 player

to install the mpg123 in fedora Linux, turn on “rpmforge” repo and type the following command:

yum install mpg123

once the package get installed type the following command for conversion:

mpg123 -w output.wav input.mp3

hope it ll be useful

Thanks

Fedora 11 installation

hi friends,
I had a tough time when i trying to install fedora 11 in my system which already has two operating systems windows xp and ubuntu 9.10…
I tried some four or five times.. Every time i screwed up with the installation.. what i did was that i made my fedora installation drive as logical partition which should have been a primary partition.. After i changed that all works fine and now i enjoy the Fedora.. So whenever you try to install a linux distro make sure that you are going to install that in a primary partition…

Migration to Fedora

hi friends,
I’m an extreme lover of ubuntu. Attracted by its user-friendliness, glossy look, easy installation of packages.but……..

once when you look for stable application environment ubuntu is not suitable..
That time i heard about this Fedora Leonidas with rock solid stability and also it provides more application assistance and one more reason s that i got all the repositories for fedora 11 ….. Now fedora provides more user friendly environment to me… So this young linux tux switched over to THE LEONIDAS…

Enjoy the stability….

HOW TO INSTALL PACKAGES FROM FEDORA 11 REPOSITORY DVD

Hi friends,
Recently i got the fedora 11 repository DVDs, which contains all the packages wit dependencies bundled in 5 DVDs.. Here lets have a look at HOW TO INSTALL PACKAGES FROM FEDORA 11 REPOSITORY DVD.. In order to install a package in offline in a fedora system, we should have the following files:

1.Appropriate key files

2.repomd.xml

repomd.xml should be in a directory called repodata and our packages with dependencies should be in a directory, Packages…

here lets begin the journey

-> Assume that we are going to set up a repository inside a drive, say /dev/sda4

-> Inside that, create two folders namely repodata and Packages

-> Store the repodata.xml, other compressed files in the folder “repodata”

-> Copy your packages to the folder “Packages”

-> Copy the key files to “/dev/sda4” (here /dev/sda4 is my example,modify it as per your drive volume)

-> Next we have to create the “.repo” file. for this thing we can copy the existing .repo file and modify the contents

open a terminal and type the following commands:

su –

# cp -r /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo

# gedit /etc/yum.repos.d/myrepo.repo

delete the contents and add the following:

[myrepo]
name=myrepo $releasever – $basearch

failovermethod=priority

baseurl=file:///media/sda4/

enabled=0

metadata_expire=7d

gpgcheck=0

gpgkey=file:///media/sda4/RPM-GPG-KEY-fedora-$basearch

save and exit the gedit.

-> now in your terminal type the command and install the packages you want:

# yum disablerepo=/* –enablerepo=myrepo install packagename

thats it friends… we did it..

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