abisko00

A word of thanks for your posts here which I find
consistently clear and helpful; they're a model of
how to explain : clearly, and with the actual _step_ by
_step_ information on how to implement your instructions.

Sure beats posts which say merely, "look in your <x,y,z> files and add/delete/update, such and such and everything will be fine."

Cheers.

Thanks for the nice feedback!

Thanks a lot you were right after I cheked i could add the packages.
But I still dont have mp3 support help!

Could you please post which software it is that does not work (amarok/XMMS/xine/mplayer). Also post the output of rpm -q <package> of the respective software. Does other sound work? Maybe we are fighting the wrong problem here.

Abisko00 I´m trying to use amarok, and the sound works. When kde starts o has an error I hear sounds. I will post the rpm -q later, cuase now I´m at work.
alek

OK, amarok is just a frontend of some other sound engine. You have several options to get mp3 support:

1. Realplayer:
- Install RealPlayer, amarok-helix-backend-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100, amarok-helix-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100

- Open amarok, select "Settings" -> "Configure Amarok" -> "Engine" -> "Helix Engine", then "Apply"
- Change:

• Core directory: /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/common
• Plugins directory: /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/plugins
• Codecs directory: /usr/lib/RealPlayer10/codecs
• Output plugin: OSS

- Apply and enjoy

2. aRts:
- Install arts-1.5.0-5, kdelibs3-arts-3.5.0-14., kdemultimedia3-mad-3.5.0-7, kdemultimedia3-arts-3.5.0-7, kdemultimedia3-arts-mad-3.5.0-7, amarok-arts-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100
This is a bit fuzzy here, I don't know if you need all these packages to make it work.

- Open amarok, select "Settings" -> "Configure Amarok" -> "Engine" -> "aRts Engine", then "Apply"

3. xine:
- Install libxine, Xine-ui, amarok-xine-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100, win32codecs

- Open amarok, select "Settings" -> "Configure Amarok" -> "Engine" -> "xine Engine", then "Apply"

DISCLAIMER: The above links will only work for a limited time, until the packages have been updated. But I guess you get the principle.

I´m currently using the xine engine on amarok. I´ll check the others then tell you

I added arts, and still doesnt work. And when i tried to add helix, real player wasnt found when I tried to search it. I have all the additional repositorys, I am thinking I could be beacuse I am running 64_86... and that package is not avalible.
What log, or thing can i post so you can understand better whats going on on my computer?

thanks

OK, I give up! I have no 64bit experience, but I can hardly imagine that mp3 support is impossible here.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO .......I must have a way to have mp3 support, the funny thing is that I added arts and it doesnt work!
Help me abisko!!!

You said above that some package was not available. Which was it?
I can't test the availabilty and function of packages for 64bit. You have a list of packages above. You need to find the 64bit version of the respective packages yourself. Mostly it's just to exchange i386 for x86_64 in the URL. I can't imagine that not one of the otpion will work. I would go for the helix engine with realplayer. There you need to find the least number of packages.

abisko, look right now I have arts and xine engines none of them works.
I tried to install the realplayer... but realplayer packaged couldnt be found. :S but the rest yes, helixplayer bla bla bla... were avaliable. i refuse to not have mp3 support.
alex

I assume you can hear Ogg Vorbis audio. Maybe you can dig back to SuSE 9.1, as back then, MP3 files would work. I just wish I could get my RioVolt to work with OggVorbis.

For the realplayer, try this: http://www.real.com/linux

Abisko check this out... I made some screenshots so You can see what happened when I tried to instal amarok-helix-backend-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100, amarok-helix-1.3.7-2.guru.suse100
I also added a screenshot with mi repositories.
http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/5...apshot25zi.png
http://img496.imageshack.us/img496/389/snapshot31dd.png
help me plase theres goota be a way to have mp3 on a 64bit.