Fedora likes to maintain a free (as in beer) policy when it comes to its own repositories. Upon first install Fedora 12 needs some tweaking to get some video and audio files to play. Some work is also needed to play encrypted DVDs. Fortunately the folks at RPM Fusion have what you need.

in command line:

su -c ‘rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm’

to validate the new repository download the appropriate key

as root:

rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-free-fedora-12
rpm –import RPM-GPG-KEY-rpmfusion-nonfree-fedora-12
yum update
yum install lsdvd libdvdnav libdvdread ffmpeg gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-bad-extras gstreamer-plugins-ugly

To get flash to work you must download the .tar.gz from Adobe’s website.

Now extract it:

tar -xvf install_flash_player_10_linux.tar.gz

as root copy to the plugins:

cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/

To play encrypted DVDs you need libdvdcss; however, it is unavalible at RPM fusion so wee will have to install from the livna.org repocetories.

as root:

rpm -Uvh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm
yum install libdvdcss