On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:30 -0600, Jay Leafey wrote:
> Andrew Allen wrote:
> > Can anybody please suggest a suitable plugin to enable playing of mp3
> > files with either Totem or Rythmbox. Both of these come as part of the
> > CentOS 5 package, but strangely neither has the necessary plugin for
> > mp3, which surely is a common enough format in the music world?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> >
>
> This is covered in the CentOS general FAQ
> (http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=%28mp3%29#q19).
>
> The MP3 codec is not included in CentOS becausing of licensing issues.
> Both Totem and Rhythmbox use the gstreamer libraries for handling
> different audio types, so you will need to get the appropriate
> gstreamer-plugins package from your favorite third-party repository. I
> think the mp3 codec (libgstlame.so) is in the gstreamer-plugins-ugly
> package, available at RPMforge.
Thanks for a very helpful reply, Jay
I have the RPMForge repo set up, so I'll install gstreamer-plugins-ugly.
Andy
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