[ILUG] MP3/ MPEG

[Peter Finch]

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, Barry O'Donovan wrote:

> On Thursday 24 June 2004 11:54, austin wrote:
> > A colleague of mine just installed Fedora (core 1). He just discovered that
> > there is no support for MPEG or MP3. The programs are there and they
> > recognise the files but just wont open them. Anyone any idea why this is
> > and what the simplest solution is?

There are a few usefull RPM's on freshrpms.

There is a mirror on HeaNet.

ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.freshrpms.net/pub/freshrpms/ayo/fedora/linux/2/i386/RPMS.freshrpms/

two of interest here:
xmms-mp3-1.2.10-2.2.p.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm
xmms-wma-1.0.3-1.1.fc2.fr.i386.rpm

I pointed yum at the heanet freshrpms and just did a yum install xmms*

Hope this helps

>
> Yeah - some copyright/licensing issues reaching back about 2 years. You used
> to be able to get MP3 libraries for XMMS from its homepage. I'm not sure if
> that's still the case.
>
> I don't know what the story with Gnome is, but for KDE the mp3 codecs come as
> part of the kdemultimedia package. You will have to build this from sources
> for Fedora/KDE MP3 compatability. I'm sure some resourceful person has
> already packaged a working RPM for Fedora - you will just have to Google for
> it.
>
> > Also is there any specific player which
> > works for WMA files?
>
> mplayer, xine, xmms - just download the drivers from their respective
> homepages.
>
>
> B.
>
> >
> > Cheeers folks
> >
> > A
>
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Regards,
Peter