Newbie with multimedia player problems

[punchy71]

Hi to all,
I am brand new to Salix OS. I have just installed Salox OS Fluxbox edition on my pc and I'm trying to now watch Youtube videos with Flash requirements and they would NOT play so I tried the right click multimedia menu option to download and install missing multimedia codecs. I did this rebooted the pc and I still can NOT watch Youtube Flash videos. How can I download and install Flash?

Also; I tried to open both a .rm and also a .wax stream file with the default Whaaw! Media Player and it won't open that kind of file even after I downloaded and installed missing multimedia codecs. I then tried downloading the files completely and playing them in completed form ( not as a stream) and it still would not play them. Is there another lightweight media player that I could try to download and install that would play these multimedia files and if so, how would I do it?

Thank you

[mimosa]

First of all, welcome to Salix!

Have you had a look at the User Guide (link on Salix homepage)? it won't answer all your questions, but definitely some of them (for instance, about package management).

Also, do search the forum, if you haven't already; you may find the answer there.

[ElderDryas]

Use Menu>System>Gslapt Package Manager. Search for flash. Install. Easy Peasy.

As for the media files, vlc (gslapt, again) opens/plays almost every media type known to man

But here are a couple of specific URL's to start with:
rm -> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/ ... using-vlc/
wax -> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1600428

[zAchAry]

You might like to try SMPlayer (mplayer front-end).

What I usually do is copying the URL streams from text files (playlist files) and then I am bookmarking them in SMPlayer or VLC or creating a launcher in my root menu.

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      [submenu] (80's) {} <>
         [ToggleCmd {Exec mocp http://64.62.194.11:8095/} {Exec mocp http://64.71.145.130:8095/} {Exec mocp http://72.13.81.178:8095/} {Exec mocp /} {Exec mocp http://72.13.81.237:8095/} {Exec mocp http://72.13.81.246:8097/}] (1.FM - 80s Channel)
         [exec] (Café 80s FM) {mocp http://178.77.100.114:8000/} <>
         [exec] (Classic 21 80's) {mocp http://178.33.130.196:8000/} <>
         [ToggleCmd {Exec mocp http://mp3-7.hotmixradios.net:8000/80} {Exec mocp http://hotmixradio-80.ice.infomaniak.ch/hotmixradio-80-128.mp3}] (Hot Mix Radio 80s)
      [end]
      [submenu] (Classic) {} <>
         [submenu] (Classical KUSC Radio) {} <>
            [exec] (Classical KUSC Radio (32 kbps\)) {mocp http://915.kuscstream.org:8000/kuscaudio32.mp3} <>
            [exec] (Classical KUSC Radio (128 kbps\)) {mocp http://915.kuscstream.org:8000/kuscaudio128.mp3} <>
         [end]
         [exec] (Radio Swiss Classic) {mocp http://livestream.srg-ssr.ch/1/rsc_de/mp3_128} <>
         [submenu] (WCPE: TheClassicalStation.org) {visit: theclassicalstation.org} <>
            [exec] (WCPE (AAC ? kbps\)) {http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.aac} <>
            [exec] (WCPE (MP3 128 kbps\)) {mocp http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.mp3} <>
            [exec] (WCPE (OGG 56 kbps\)) {mocp http://audio-mp3.ibiblio.org:8000/wcpe.ogg} <>
            [exec] (WCPE (WMA 64 kbps\)) {mocp http://istreampl-classicstation-live.wm.llnwd.net/istreampl_classicstation_live} <>
         [end]
      [end]
      [submenu] (Comedy) {} <>
         [exec] (Radio Carlin) {mocp http://84.40.30.145:8008/} <>
      [end]


[punchy71]

Thanks for the help. I downloaded and installed VLC media player and rebooted, however, it doesn't show up anywhere in the menu, so how can I find where it went?