Can't play MP3 files.

[stan]

On Fri, 19 Jun 2009 23:22:13 +0300
"MUSTAFA CAGATAYLI" <MUSTAFA.CAGATAYLI at ciu.edu.tr> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have installed F11 on to my HP G5000 and can not listen to MP3
> files.
> 
> When I run Movie Player it says "An error occurred. The playback of
> this movies requires a MPEG-1 Layer 3 (MP3) decoder plugin which is
> not installed."
> 
> Any idea ?K.UD2PEtQE.DCGEw.CneM7SgE.J
> ---------
> Mustafa
> 
You can see here why this happens for baseline Fedora.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Multimedia

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/user-guide/f11/en-US/html/chap-User_Guide-Playing_multimedia.html#sect-User_Guide-Playing_multimedia-The_Fedora_Projects_approach_to_multimedia_support

You need to install the rpmfusion-nonfree repositories and install a
version that has mp3 support.  Links to these other repositories are
available on the fedora site

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/OtherRepositories

but also available here with instructions:

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f11.html