[K12OSN] Media Player

[Terrell Prude', Jr.]

Jim Kronebusch wrote:

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>>mplayer or any xine-based players work well with almost all 
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>I had trouble with Xine playing mp3 formats, is there a workaround for
>this?  Otherwise I liked Xine a lot.
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That will be a problem on any Red Hat distro from 8.0 on.  The reason 
for this is that there are patent questions with the mp3 format, and Red 
Hat opted instead to leave out mp3 support and instead get behind Ogg 
Vorbis (http://www.redhat.com/advice/speaks_80mm.html).  Red Hat, 
fortunately, gives us links to pages that tell us how to install mp3 
functionality.

--TP