Fedora 10 Multimedia
This post is to help set up multimedia on your freshly installed Fedora 10. What we want to do is get all of the webs multimedia to play on our system and install the necessary drivers for our graphics card. I have an old Nvidia 6200 card here, so I’ll use that one as an example.
First we need to enable the repository for RPMFusion.org as it contains everything we need.
Paste this in the terminal:
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' That command installs the RPMFusion repository for you. Now the codecs we need: yum install gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly gecko-mediaplayer mozilla-vlc xine-plugin xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld libquicktime x264 xvidcore Adobe's Flash Plugin: su -c 'rpm -Uvh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm' yum install flash-plugin Nvidia driver: yum install kmod-nvidia (not necessary as the 6200 is supported outofthebox™ it seems) All done!
Definitely check that you have hardware acceleration for your video card. I had to do the last step with Fedora 10 and an 8600, glxgears was ~150 prior to yum install kmod-nvidia and ~5000 afterwards.
glxinfo | grep direct shows it is enabled, but I don’t doubt that you get better performance using kmod-nvida.