On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:42 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> Always Learning wrote:
> > On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
> >> Most but not all. Windows users have only mp3 music, especially if they
> >> have illegal copies like >90% of people in South East Europe. For those
> >> you need non-free codecs.
> >
> > If MP3 music 'works' (meaning it successfully plays on Centos/Gnome) why
> > would additional codecs be required ?
> Does it? It was not my experience on either CentOS or Fedora. MP3 codecs
> are proprietary, and are not distributed by Red Hat distro's (RHEL and
> Fedora)
>
> >
> > I'm not very knowledgeable about codecs, which I assume are the audio
> > equivalent of printer drivers. I understand "yum install gstreamer*"
> > adds the legal and the 'bad' codecs which makes unplayable music
> > playable in Centos/Gnome.
> >
> As far as I know there is no codec in base repo that can play MP3 files.
> Not with Gstreamer nor with Xine.
>
> Ljubomir
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Here is my setup which includes a few packages from rpmforge. Same
setup on a dozen desktops with various hardware. All play mp3.
~]$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-1.el6.rf.x86_64
phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-17.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.el6.rf.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-python-0.10.16-1.1.el6.x86_64
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.5.8-13.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-tools-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.23-1.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.19-3.el6.rf.x86_64
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64
[bmcclure@house ~]$
Cheers,
B.J.
RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64
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