I just installed Fedora 14 KDE Spin and like many other Linux distros, it does not play MP3, MPEG and several other formats by default. To enable playback of these proprietary formats, you must install non-free codecs. To get those, I installed the Livna and RPM Fusion repos by clicking the following links and opening each with KPackageKit:
Livna
RPM Fusion Free
RPM Fusion Non-Free

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I was trying to play a video with Totem in Debian Squeeze Testing and got the following error and only video played.

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One of the most popular media players, VLC Media Player has version 1.1 RC out. The final version should be released shortly. You can install the Release Candidate by installing the following PPA: Continue Reading

I am using Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat 64bit Alpha 1 and I have been facing problem playing AVI and FLV files. I used to get the the following error “No suitable decoder module: VLC does not support the audio or video format “XVID”. VLC Unfortunately there is no way for you to fix this.”
in VLC when I tried to play some AVI files. Also, in terminal, it said:
“main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID’.
VLC probably does not support this sound or video format.”
Also, FLV files failed to play without any error. Totem said:
“No packages with requested plugins found. The requested plugins are: XVID MPEG-4 decoder/H.264 decoder”.

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If you are outside of the country or somewhere where you cannot listen to these FMs or simply want to waste your bandwidth, you can listen to them online, LIVE.

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