eric chadbourne writes:
> I think he's asking which evil format you're trying to read.
oh.

> Do you mean DVD's?
silly me -- yes, that's what i wanted to try.

> http://www.fedorafaq.org/#dvd
went there, did that, and it works fine.  thank you.

Kristian Hermansen writes:
> You have a few options:

> 1) Read this for unsupported codecs from third-parties:
> http://www.fedorafaq.org/
yup, did that.

> 2) install VLC, which doesn't need codecs, unlike totem/gstreamer crap
vlc looks interesting, will try it next, but how can it
not use some sort of decoder?

> 3) Use Ubuntu, which stores most codecs on their own servers, unlike
>    Fedora.  This is a political and legal issue you are encountering
>    dude...
i'm just getting over the challenge of installing FC6 and
trying to get adjusted to the kde desktop environment,
which i've been avoiding for years.  ubuntu is another
challenge for another day.

thanks to both,
dan

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