On 02/20/2017 06:06 PM, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 07:58:22PM -0600, Michael Hennebry wrote: > > >> I have movie player installed on centos 6. >> When I try to play an mp3 file, it complains about the lack of a codec, >> mpeg-1 something 3. >> google hasn't helped. What package do I need? >> Trying to install ffmpeg gets me a no such package message. >> >> I've dealt with codec issues before. >> Mostly what I remember is that before I was done, >> I wanted to kill something. > > For various legal reasons, I don't think CentOS can include various codecs. > > However, if you add the nux repos, you can then install mplayer and be able > to play mp3s. > > (There are probably other programs, you can install ffmpeg from source, and > so on, but installing mplayer from the nux repos is probably the easiest > workaround. Or mpv if it's available, I'm not sure if it is.) > Fedora apparently now allows mp3 decoders but not encoders. If movie player is totem - it is GStreamer based and you can buy the fluendo plugins and they works well and are fairly cheap.