Re: mp3 support

Antti wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 21:32, Maynard Kuona wrote:
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>>On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:53, Antti wrote:
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>>>What package do I need to listen mp3s with rhythmbox? 
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>>Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once!!
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>>Its actually a bit of an issue really. Rhythmbox is aplayer written on
>>the Gstreamer Multimedia Framework. See http://www.gstreamer.net . It
>>gets all its codecs from this framework. To play mp3s in gstreamer, you
>>need to tell gstreamer how to do it by installing an appropriate codec
>>and an appropriate plugin. I do not know if the fedora rpms were
>>compiled with mp3 support or not. If they were not, then you have to
>>update gstreamer, install it over again. You could try going to the
>>gstreamer website and following the intructions, but installing
>>gstreamer is a bit harder than the usual ./configure; make; make
>>install. You would also need to make sure a whole lot of packages are
>>installed for gstreamer to be able to use them. For mp3 playback it uses
>>mad. I have also seen lame hanging around there, so it might use lame as
>>well. You have to compile it right because a lot depends on it, like
>>playing movies too. I wold say its better to wit until someone gets
>>updated packages. I am sure freshrpms will have them soon.
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>What about Sound Juicer, what do I need to encode to mp3s? It says its
>not possible with your installation.
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Sound Juicer uses the same framework, so its the same. You can encode 
into ogg though, but its an issue if yu want to put your ogg files onto 
a portable or something. I'd say just wait for a new set of gstreamer 
packages with mp3 support. It may just be a matter of installing the 
relevant plugins though.


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