removed mp3 support in media players in fedora core 1

[Brian Huffman]

I have a more interesting question....Since Fedora is now a community supported
project and RedHat is only "sponsoring" it, might that relieve RedHat of legal
consequences of the patent issues?  Could we now include mp3 support?

Brian

fedora-list at redhat.com wrote: 
> hello,
> 
> i installed FC1 this afternoon (being a linux newbie) and wanted to 
> listen to an mp3 stream in xmms when a pop-up window came up informing 
> me that RH had removed mp3 capabilities due to certain reasons..
> 
> can anybody tell me whether there's a way to actually listen to mp3s 
> without having to convert all mp3s to ogg and listening to one of the 
> few ogg streams? i found maybe 2 or 3 that were not some cultural radio 
> station or pop-oriented...?
> 
> cheers,
> 
> - Thorsten
> 
> 
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