FC5 sound problem

[Dan]

Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
> Kevin J. Cummings wrote:
>   
>> Dan wrote:
>>     
>>> Sound and video are encoded separately. If the video is fine, then it
>>> seems like a sound decoding issue. See if you can check what codec is
>>> being used (i just go to the properties in Nautilus, on the Audio/Video
>>> tab, probably some terminal command you can use); all the videos I have
>>> right now have mp3 audio.
>>> -Dan
>>>       
>> Here's the cut/paste from mplayer:
>>
>> Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3)
>>     
>
> OK, further test point, xine plays my .mpgs just fine.  Its mplayer
> which has the problem.  xine also plays my .mp3 files just fine, while
> mplayer chokes on them.  So, I think I've narrowed it down to my mplayer
> configuration for mp3s....
>
>   
Install the livna repo, and install gstreamer-plugins-ugly, that should 
get mp3 (and a few other nonfree codecs) decoding for mplayer. I'm 
assuming you installed xine from either livna or another third-party 
repo, it naturally had mp3 support already.
-Dan