How to play music and video on RHEL6

RHEL6 has recently released version 6.1, which is getting closer and closer to the stable version. Haha! RHEL6 is based on Fedora12. In terms of startup speed, RHEL6 is more than three times faster than RHEL5. RHEL6 also supports sleep, xfs, and a winxp instance on KVM. Linux enthusiasts use RHEL6 as a desktop. playing music and video is definitely an indispensable function. rhel6 comes with a music player rhythmbox and a video player totem, all by default

RHEL6 has recently released version 6.1, which is getting closer and closer to the stable version. Haha! RHEL6 is based on Fedora 12. In terms of startup speed, RHEL6 is more than three times faster than RHEL5. RHEL6 also supports sleep and xfs. You can also install a winxp on KVM for occasional use. Linux enthusiasts use RHEL6 as a desktop. playing music and video is definitely an indispensable function. rhel6 comes with a music player rhythmbox and a video player totem, the decoder must be installed. The following describes how to install other desktop applications on rhel6.

1: first, make sure that the rhythmbox and totem software are correctly installed.

 
 

  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -qa |egrep 'rhythmbox|totem'  
  
  
totem-pl-parser-2.28.3-1.el6.x86_64  
  
  
rhythmbox-0.12.8-1.el6.x86_64  
  
  
totem-mozplugin-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64  
  
  
totem-nautilus-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64  
  
  
totem-2.28.6-2.el6.x86_64 
 
 

2: download and install related software packages. Otherwise, the dependency will not be resolved after the decoder package is installed.

 
 

  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libid3tag-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm  
  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://dl.atrpms.net/all/libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm  
  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# wget http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/RedHat/beta/6/beta2.update.0/5.90Server/optional/x86_64/os/Packages/cppunit-1.12.1-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm  
  
  
 
  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -ivh libid3tag-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm   
  
  
warning: libid3tag-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66534c2b: NOKEY  
  
  
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]  
  
  
   1:libid3tag              ########################################### [100%]  
  
  
     
  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -ivh libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm   
  
  
warning: libid3tag-devel-0.15.1b-7.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 66534c2b: NOKEY  
  
  
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]  
  
  
   1:libid3tag-devel        ########################################### [100%]     
  
  
     
  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# rpm -ivh cppunit-1.12.1-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm   
  
  
warning: cppunit-1.12.1-3.1.el6.x86_64.rpm: Header V3 RSA/SHA256 Signature, key ID f21541eb: NOKEY  
  
  
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]  
  
  
   1:cppunit                ########################################### [100%]  
 
 

3: Configure yum library, http://apt.sw.be on this site rpm resources are quite rich, but RHEL6 yum library is relatively not complete

 
 

  
  
[root@rhel6 ~]# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/base.repo   
  
  
[base]  
  
  
name=base 
  
  
baseurl=ftp://192.168.50.7/pub/iso6/Server/  
  
  
enable=1 
  
  
gpgcheck=0 
  
  
 
  
  
[dag]  
  
  
name=dag 
  
  
baseurl=http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el6/en/x86_64/dag/  
  
  
enable=1 
  
  
gpgcheck=0