From: "Joe Barr" 

On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 09:18:06 +0000, Chris Robinson wrote:

> I thought I'd keep this thread up-to-date so's people can have a rough
> idea of what I've been doing in Linux and any huurdles I come across.
> I've been fairly busy this weekend (went paintballing on Saturday - ouch)
> and so I haven't done loads of things.
>
> 1. Reinstall:
> One of the first things I did was to reinstall RedHat.  I did this as up
> until Friday, half my system was still taken up by Windows partitions.
> I'd backed these up to a network share and so I wiped my drives clean,
> installed RedHat on my 8Gb drive (I let it manage this space itself rather
> than defining my own partitions) and set my 40Gb to be my /home directory.
>  This went fine without any problems.
>
> 2. Chat, E-Mail & News:
> I used Gaim to replace ICQ and MSN Messenger which it does well.  It
> imports my MSN buddy list fine but I had to add all my ICQ contacts
> manually (a bit anoying).  This said, another client for ICQ only called
> Licq (I think) did import my contact list fine - I just like having one
> app to do both (like Trillian does).
>
> I set up my mail using Ximian Evolution which is an MS Outlook clone and a
> very good one at that - it's really easy to use and simple to set up.  The
> intelligent mail import wizard didn't really do much so I had to import my
> mail from Eudora one mailbox at a time which was slightly annoying - this
> said I didn't think I'd be able to import it at all.
>
> I decided to use a program called Pan for news reading - I tested this out
> last night and I like it a lot.  It reminds me a bit of the Netscape
> Newsreader in layout only a lot nicer.
>
> 3. Media playing:
> I think this is the area that's really going to annoy me.  I downloaded
> and installed a player called Xine last night.  It looks good and has an
> impressive amount of features.  It plays DVD's, VCD's, MPEGS, RealMedia,
> Windows Media and Win32 Codecs - sounds impressive.  The install went
> without any hitches and so I thought I'd try playing an MPEG.  It supports
> drag and drop (thank god) and it appeared to play well, that is until I
> full screened it - then it was unwatchably jerky.  I don't know if this is
> something I've got wrongly configured or not but the performance really
> did suck.  I know my PC's not state of the art but I think a PII 350
> (running at 392) and 512Mb RAM should be sufficient for playing MPEGS -
> maybe I need to update my grpahics drivers or something? - I'll play more
> tonight.
>
> 4. Annoyances:
> I'll post some of these as seperate questions I need answers to but
> they're here too:
>
> At the moment it's the media playing that's annoying but I'm sure I'll
> sort it soon.  The other thing that really sucks is that XMMS (the Winamp
> clone) and XINE (the video file player) don't support playing files from
> SMB (i.e Windows network share) locations.  This means that I have to copy
> across any MP3's or videos we have on our LAN to my PC before I can listen
> to or watch any of them - that suck IMO and I hope there's some way aound
> this. Alomost every single MP3/ Video player I've tried in Windows
> supports palying files from network locations - as should these.


Did you smbmount the share before trying to play the files?  It should work.




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