Greetings fellow K12LTSP admins, installers and teachers!

This is a collection of RPM's and a script to handle the process of installing
things to get multimedia working under K12LTSP-5.0.0EL.x86_64.

This installs the stuff for using mplayerplug-in in the browser.

I have had very good success with this and hope it works for you.

INSTALL
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From a fresh installation K12LTSP-5.0.0EL.x86_64 run the "Install additional software" on the root desktop

Now open a shell window and cd to where this file and the pre-install.sh script is.

Run the script with ./pre-install.sh or sh pre-install.sh as root.

Now close and reopen your browser and verify the plugins are all loaded by putting about:plugins in the URL bar.

You should see DivX, Quicktime, Real, mplayer, windows multimedia, java and flash.

NOTE: The codecs package from mplayer is NOT installed. It seems to not be needed. Even wmv plays back nicely from United Streaming!

NOTE 2: I got best results using the xv video in mplayer. Open preferences and select video->xv. 
Also select audio->esd . I did this as the root user and not for the other test users on the LTSP clients and 
they all seemed to work automagically.

NOTE 3: esd did NOT start properly on the clients. I resolved this by editing the
/opt/ltsp/i386/etc/rc.sound file. I've enclosed a script that does it for you as well some other gconf settings
(like making the gnome window a browser. You can comment out those setting.) That script is called 
first-run-scripts.sh.

NOTE 4: If you have a nor-tec minipc jr (the litle bolt on the back of the monitor thin client) 
I also stuck a script (set-audio-ltsp.sh) that edits the /opt/ltsp/i386/etc/audolist file to 
correctly use the also enclosed snd-sis7019.ko driver.

Enjoy!

James Kinney