HOWTO enable mp3 Re: mp3 support

[Elton Woo]

On October 17, 2003 12:16 pm, Brian McKie , <Brian McKie 
<bpmckie at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
> 	Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to get xmms to play mp3 files? I know you used to
> be bale to install and mp3 rpm for xmms, but I cant find one for 1.2.8.

... from my notes:

MP3 SUPPORT in Red Hat 9 (also valid for Severn Test1, and Fedora Core):
from: http://www.mpg123.de/cgi-bin/sitexplorer.cgi?/mpg123/precompiled/
download and install: 
mpg123-0.59q-1.i386.rpm OR mpg123-0.59q.3dnow-1.i386.rpm

To re-enable XMMS MP3 support in Red Hat Linux, you can simply
install the xmms-mp3-1.2.7-13.p.i386.rpm file.
http://www.gurulabs.com/downloads.html

It provides the two files:
root]#/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.la
root]#/usr/lib/xmms/Input/libmpg123.so 

For Red Hat Linux 9, installing the following RPMs provides
an MP3-capable version of XMMS.

[License: GPL]
xmms-1.2.7-22.i386.rpm
xmms-devel-1.2.7-22.i386.rpm
xmms-mp3-1.2.7-22.i386.rpm
xmms-skins-1.2.7-22.i386.rpm
xmms-1.2.7-22.src.rpm


MP3 to WAV conversion:
root]#mpg123 -w myfile.wav myfile.mp3.

I highly recommend getting xine and gxine from
http://freshrpms.net/, and the various codecs.
You will then be able to play mp3 and qt files.

HTH & cheers,

Elton ;-)
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