MP3 not supported?
Ian Malone
ibm21 at cam.ac.uk
Mon Nov 21 13:36:09 UTC 2005
Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Darryl L. Pierce wrote:
>> Okay, relative newbie question:
>>
>> Why does Fedora default to HelixPlayer for MP3s and then throw up the
>> message "The player does not have the capabilities to play back this
>> content"? Why doesn't Fedora install MP3 (and MPEG-4) support by
>> default, and how do I install these so that my default player for
>> both types (HelixPlayer and Totem) will actually play MP3 and MPEG
>> files?
>>
> http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/#sn-why-no-mp3
The situation has become even more fun recently with a licensing company
collecting royalties for mp3 patents held by France Telecom and Philips
among others. With a little luck commercial mp3 might quietly die off.
I would advise the OP to have a look at <http://www.fedorafaq.org/>
for advice on playing mp3 in Fedora. As for Helix, the Realplayer 10
for Linux binary from Real includes support for closed codecs,
including mp3.
--
imalone
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