cd burning software and media players

tuxtamer · 03-14-2005, 04:10 AM

hi,
i use redhat 9 . pls suggest me softwares for playing movies and mp3s. also suggest cd burning softwares and the websites where i can find theese softwares.

druuna · 03-14-2005, 04:22 AM

Hi,

These are probably part of RH:

- mplayer (video, mp3 etc etc) Download here
- cdrecord / xcdroast Download cdrecord - xcdroast

There are a lot more players/burners out there. If you want to burn dvd's as well, take a look at k3b (kde burning tool).

Hope this helps.

tuxtamer · 03-14-2005, 05:09 AM

hey druuna,
thanx for the reply. i installed the mplayer but when i try to play a mp3 file i get a message

"Due to paptent licencing, and conflicts between such patent licences and the licences of application source code MPEG -1/2 audio layer 3 (mp3) support has been removed from this application by Red Hat Inc. "

what should i do?

druuna · 03-14-2005, 05:27 AM

Hi,

Get mad about the whole patent issue that's going on, sign every petition there's is against this nonsense.........

Ok, that said: Try downloading mplayer from the official site (try an older version if mp3 is taken out).

reddazz · 03-14-2005, 06:39 AM

You can get working third party packages for Redhat from freshrpms. Download apt and synaptic for your distro and then use them to install or remove packages. The Redhat 9 packages are no longer maintained because its now a discontinued/legacy distro.