On Tuesday 26 November 2002 08:20, Marc Murphy uttered: > Using the standard install I've tried playing my MP3s with the xmms > included. Only one of them plays and it plays perfectly. The rest > can't even be listed. The files are stored on a Windows partition I am > accessing by mounting vfat. Has anyone else run into this problem? Please read the release notes. mp3 technology is patented, and this patent doesn't allow for the sale of any software that includes mp3 technology, without paying a fee to the owners of the patent. Such a patent is incompatable with the GPL, and for this reason, Red Hat has decided to not include mp3 support in their distro. To do so would be unethical, and quite possible illegal. You can however still obtain OSS media players or player plugins that support mp3 playback/encoding. Be carefull though, as anybody who tries to apply GPL to mp3 technology obviously doesn't understand the GPL well enough. -- Jesse Keating For Web Services and Linux Consulting, Visit --> j2Solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
