[CentOS] movie player vs. mp3

Tue Feb 21 12:35:09 UTC 2017
Alice Wonder <alice at domblogger.net>

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