On Fri, 23 Apr 2004 08:53:09 +0100, Julien Olivier wrote: > > Only that this AFAIK is no longer necessary with rhythmbox >= 0.8.0 as > > it doesn't do things directly, but only via gstreamer. So in theory, > > dropping an MP3 gstreamer plugin into (as of now) /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8 > > and all gstreamer apps should magically be able to play MP3. Correct. > I'd just like to add that, maybe, in the future, Fedora could provide a > CD burner and a video player (totem) based on gstreamer. So you would > have to get the right gstreamer-plugin once, and you would have MP3 > support in Rhythmbox, Totem and a (therotitcal) CD burner. It's much > better than having to download a plugin for each app using illegal > codecs. > > Am I wrong here ? No. The gstreamer-plugins-mp3 package is just a temporary work-around. One could make a site like rpm.livna.org provide a "gstreamer-plugins" upgrade package instead, which contains other missing plugins, too (e.g. mpeg). There are plans on doing that. I'm not up-to-date about them, though. -- Fedora Core release 1 (Yarrow) - Linux 2.4.22-1.2188.nptl
