On Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:50:13 -0500 Chris racerx@makeworld.com wrote:
Is CentOS held to the same philosophy as Fedora by NOT including apps to play formats such mp3 etc.
If this is the case, how easy is it (looking for a how-to url) to add things such as gstream-bad to a Cent install.
Never mind....
http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General#q19
"There is no mp3 support in CentOS! Or is there? How about other multimedia formats?
Yes. There is no mp3 support in CentOS, as there is no mp3 support in the distributions from upstream. It's not included because of legal (patent) issues. You either can encode your music files to ogg vorbis, which is supported in CentOS or install mp3 support from a third party repository, namely rpmforge. For example: If you want mp3 support for xmms, then install xmms-mp3 from that repository.
The same is true for several other multimedia formats (codecs, for example gstreamer plugins) and multimedia players like xine or mplayer. These aren't packaged with CentOS because of legal issues, but you may find those in the rpmforge repository."