On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:42 +0200, Ljubomir Ljubojevic wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos Here is my setup which includes a few packages from rpmforge. Same setup on a dozen desktops with various hardware. All play mp3. ~]$ rpm -qa | grep gstreamer gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.11-1.el6.rf.x86_64 phonon-backend-gstreamer-4.6.2-17.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.16-2.el6.rf.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-extras-0.10.19-2.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-python-0.10.16-1.1.el6.x86_64 PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.5.8-13.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-tools-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.23-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.19-3.el6.rf.x86_64 gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.29-1.el6.x86_64 [bmcclure at house ~]$ Cheers, B.J. RHEL 6.0, Linux 2.6.32-131.2.1.el6.x86_64