GStreamer and mp3

[Peter Robinson]

On 3/22/06, Oldman <talbotscott at cox.net> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I can't seem to get mp3 working in any gstreamer apps.  I believe that
> the extra audio plugin was supposed to get that for me, but no luck.  I
> have installed the following:
>
> gstreamer.i386               0.10.3-3
> gstreamer-plugins-base.i386  0.10.3-3
> gstreamer-plugins-good.i386  0.10.2-1
> gstreamer08.i386             0.8.12-4.fc5
> gstreamer08-plugins.i386     0.8.12-2.fc5
> gstreamer08-plugins-extra-08-audio.i386  0.8.11-3.lvn5
>
> Did some poking around, gst-register shows both mad and lame plugins
> but gst-inspect shows that both don't exist.  libmad and lame were
> installed as dependencies of the gstreamer rpm.
>
> I've been to the google groups, but there was no help on this. So am I
> the only one wit the problem?


The gstreamer08 stuff is of no real use. The Fluendo guys have
released some good packages on the gstreamer site here
http://gstreamer.freedesktop.org/download/fedora5.html you just add
the 3 repos and away you go. It works really well.

Peter