freshrpms.net is your friend, all sorts of useful multimedia stuff can be found there for redhat 8.0 boxes... http://psyche.freshrpms.net/ (Try http://valhalla.freshrpms.net/ for rh7.3). On Tue Feb 04 2003 at 16:07, "M. Fioretti" wrote: > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 09:39:34 at 09:39:34AM -0500, Diego, Emil > (ediego@exchange.sba.miami.edu) wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have run into a little problem with redhat 8.0 and xmms. I had my > > machine running redhat 7.3 and xmms. My sound card worked fineand I was > > able to play mp3's without any problem. > > > > Red Hat 8.0 does not support mp3, for valid, patent related reasons. > > Just check the release notes, or the official statement (can't find > the URL right now) on Red Hat's web site. The right thing to do, as > far as fighting closed formats is concerned, would be to convert all > mp3 files to ogg format and never go back. > > If for any reason you can't or don't want to do it, the purely > technical patch (i.e. keeping the mp3 files and hiding the > problem) would be to go to freshrpms.net, and install all the mp3 > related RPMs available on that site. > > Ciao, > Marco Fioretti Cheers Tony -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
