[CentOS] movie player vs. mp3

[Alice Wonder]

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.