MP3 not supported?

[Rahul Sundaram]

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

regards
Rahul