mp3 support

[Maynard Kuona]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:53, Antti wrote:
> What package do I need to listen mp3s with rhythmbox? 

Listen very carefully. I shall say this only once!!

Its actually a bit of an issue really. Rhythmbox is aplayer written on
the Gstreamer Multimedia Framework. See http://www.gstreamer.net . It
gets all its codecs from this framework. To play mp3s in gstreamer, you
need to tell gstreamer how to do it by installing an appropriate codec
and an appropriate plugin. I do not know if the fedora rpms were
compiled with mp3 support or not. If they were not, then you have to
update gstreamer, install it over again. You could try going to the
gstreamer website and following the intructions, but installing
gstreamer is a bit harder than the usual ./configure; make; make
install. You would also need to make sure a whole lot of packages are
installed for gstreamer to be able to use them. For mp3 playback it uses
mad. I have also seen lame hanging around there, so it might use lame as
well. You have to compile it right because a lot depends on it, like
playing movies too. I wold say its better to wit until someone gets
updated packages. I am sure freshrpms will have them soon.