Re: movie player vs. mp3

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> Am 21.02.2017 um 03:08 schrieb Alice Wonder <alice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> 
> On 02/20/2017 06:06 PM, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:58:22PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> I have movie player installed on centos 6.
>>> When I try to play an mp3 file, it complains about the lack of a codec,
>>> mpeg-1 something 3.
>>> google hasn't helped.  What package do I need?
>>> Trying to install ffmpeg gets me a no such package message.
>>> 
>>> I've dealt with codec issues before.
>>> Mostly what I remember is that before I was done,
>>> I wanted to kill something.
>> 
>> For various legal reasons, I don't think CentOS can include various codecs.
>> 
>> However, if you add the nux repos, you can then install mplayer and be able
>> to play mp3s.
>> 
>> (There are probably other programs, you can install ffmpeg from source, and
>> so on, but installing mplayer from the nux repos is probably the easiest
>> workaround. Or mpv if it's available, I'm not sure if it is.)
>> 
> 
> Fedora apparently now allows mp3 decoders but not encoders.
> 
> If movie player is totem - it is GStreamer based and you can buy the fluendo plugins and they works well and are fairly cheap.


EPEL has libmad included (its not a gstreamer plugin):

yum install epel-release
yum install madplay


--
LF

PS: or compile gstreamer-plugins-ugly manually


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