On 02/21/2017 04:18 AM, Leon Fauster wrote: >> Am 21.02.2017 um 03:08 schrieb Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>: >> >> 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. > > > EPEL has libmad included (its not a gstreamer plugin): > > yum install epel-release > yum install madplay > > In that case the extra gstreamer plugins in EPEL should probably be updated to build the libmad plugin, as libmad-devel should be available to. The libmad gstreamer plugin should allow any gstreamer based application to decode mp3