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4gigs of RAM on Fedora 12 32bit

fishbowl — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 20:00:19 +0000

PAE stands for Physician Address Extension and is an option for the Linux kernel which will allow you to access 4gig of RAM on a 32 bit kernel setup.

install as root:

yum install kernal-PAE

Reboot the computer and a new kernel option, indicated by the suffix PAE, is available. Boot that kernel. In the terminal type:

free -m

and you should see a print out with a number close to 4025 listed under total.

as root remove the default kernel:

yum remove kernel

Multimedia codecs, Flash, and encytpted DVDs on Fedora 12

fishbowl — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:24:52 +0000

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

Video with Firefox on Debian

fishbowl — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:54:46 +0000

if using the defualt iceweasle build , just install xine-totem and video will embed within the browser. However, I use a browser package other then what Debian provides so I have to copy mozplugger from Ubuntu becouse the debian repo wants to install iceweasle with it.

sudo dpkg -i mozplugger_1.10.2-2ubuntu1_amd64.deb
cd /usr/lib/firefox-3.5/plugins/
sudo ln -s /etc/lib/mozilla/mozplugger.so

alternatively I instal mplayer-nogui to use the mplayer engine with mozplugger from Ubuntu (does not have player controls).

Getting the best out of Totem on Debian

fishbowl — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:54:54 +0000

I like to use Totem with the xine engine because of it’s simple interface, and I have experienced it is easier to configure totem with xine then with the default gstreamer. To get the full use of your video watching fallow the directions at Debian Multimedia, then type at terminal:

sudo apt-get install totem-xine w64codecs

Replace w64codecs with w32codecs if you are running a 32 bit system. This package allows you to play a multitude of Video formats.