Always Learning wrote:
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:25 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote:
Most but not all. Windows users have only mp3 music, especially if they have illegal copies like >90% of people in South East Europe. For those you need non-free codecs.
If MP3 music 'works' (meaning it successfully plays on Centos/Gnome) why would additional codecs be required ?
Does it? It was not my experience on either CentOS or Fedora. MP3 codecs are proprietary, and are not distributed by Red Hat distro's (RHEL and Fedora)
I'm not very knowledgeable about codecs, which I assume are the audio equivalent of printer drivers. I understand "yum install gstreamer*" adds the legal and the 'bad' codecs which makes unplayable music playable in Centos/Gnome.
As far as I know there is no codec in base repo that can play MP3 files. Not with Gstreamer nor with Xine.
Ljubomir