Re: RHL 8.0 and mp3 support ?

On Wednesday 25 September 2002 04:52 pm, AnI AnI wrote:
> those who have upgraded to RH Linux 8.0
>
> does it support mp3 playback ?
>

>From the Release Notes:

Due to patent licensing, and conflicts between such patent licenses and the 
licenses of application source code, MPEG-1/2 audio layer 3 (mp3) support has 
been removed from applications in Red Hat Linux such as XMMS and noatun. Red 
Hat suggests the use of Ogg Vorbis™, an open, non-proprietary, 
patent-and-royalty-free compressed audio format.
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