Can anybody please suggest a suitable plugin to enable playing of mp3 files with either Totem or Rythmbox. Both of these come as part of the CentOS 5 package, but strangely neither has the necessary plugin for mp3, which surely is a common enough format in the music world?
Thanks, Andy
Andrew Allen wrote:
Can anybody please suggest a suitable plugin to enable playing of mp3 files with either Totem or Rythmbox. Both of these come as part of the CentOS 5 package, but strangely neither has the necessary plugin for mp3, which surely is a common enough format in the music world?
Thanks, Andy
This is covered in the CentOS general FAQ (http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=%28mp3%29#q19).
The MP3 codec is not included in CentOS becausing of licensing issues. Both Totem and Rhythmbox use the gstreamer libraries for handling different audio types, so you will need to get the appropriate gstreamer-plugins package from your favorite third-party repository. I think the mp3 codec (libgstlame.so) is in the gstreamer-plugins-ugly package, available at RPMforge.
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 14:30 -0600, Jay Leafey wrote:
Andrew Allen wrote:
Can anybody please suggest a suitable plugin to enable playing of mp3 files with either Totem or Rythmbox. Both of these come as part of the CentOS 5 package, but strangely neither has the necessary plugin for mp3, which surely is a common enough format in the music world?
Thanks, Andy
This is covered in the CentOS general FAQ (http://wiki.centos.org/FAQ/General?highlight=%28mp3%29#q19).
The MP3 codec is not included in CentOS becausing of licensing issues. Both Totem and Rhythmbox use the gstreamer libraries for handling different audio types, so you will need to get the appropriate gstreamer-plugins package from your favorite third-party repository. I think the mp3 codec (libgstlame.so) is in the gstreamer-plugins-ugly package, available at RPMforge.
Thanks for a very helpful reply, Jay I have the RPMForge repo set up, so I'll install gstreamer-plugins-ugly.
Andy
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I'm sure it's not a matter of it not existing, a quick Google search shows (for Fedora): Now, install the correct plug-in depending on which MP3 player you want to use: For Rhythmbox or Totem: yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly It's likely a matter of having to pay royalties for MP3 players and encoders, so it's not included by the upstream vendor. For a home user, it's no problem, BUT you have to enable a 3rd party repository to get it.
Post #14 in: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8134 explains..... Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Allen Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 10:02 AM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: [CentOS] mp3 plugin for Rythmbox or Totem?
Can anybody please suggest a suitable plugin to enable playing of mp3 files with either Totem or Rythmbox. Both of these come as part of the CentOS 5 package, but strangely neither has the necessary plugin for mp3, which surely is a common enough format in the music world?
Thanks, Andy
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On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:37 -0800, Dennis McLeod wrote:
I'm sure it's not a matter of it not existing, a quick Google search shows (for Fedora): Now, install the correct plug-in depending on which MP3 player you want to use: For Rhythmbox or Totem: yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly It's likely a matter of having to pay royalties for MP3 players and encoders, so it's not included by the upstream vendor. For a home user, it's no problem, BUT you have to enable a 3rd party repository to get it.
Post #14 in: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8134 explains..... Dennis
Thanks Dennis, I've installed the plugins as suggested and it works brilliantly - I can now play mp3 files!
Andy
Andrew Allen wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 12:37 -0800, Dennis McLeod wrote:
I'm sure it's not a matter of it not existing, a quick Google search shows (for Fedora): Now, install the correct plug-in depending on which MP3 player you want to use: For Rhythmbox or Totem: yum install gstreamer-plugins-ugly It's likely a matter of having to pay royalties for MP3 players and encoders, so it's not included by the upstream vendor. For a home user, it's no problem, BUT you have to enable a 3rd party repository to get it.
Post #14 in: http://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=8134 explains..... Dennis
Thanks Dennis, I've installed the plugins as suggested and it works brilliantly - I can now play mp3 files!
right ... and I don't have to pay anyone 5.1 billion dollars for patent infringement ... so we are both happy :-D
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