I installed FC4 yesterday and unfortunately facing hell lot of problems with the install.

The latest in the problems list is no sound.The good thing is my sound card is getting detected and when sample music is played i can hear it. Even on logins,system sound i can hear the beeps.But is not playing files from hardisk.

I tried to play cd and kscd did play the music. But when i try to play online radio thru amarok no sound.I did play around with alsamixer and kmix as recommended by other threads, still no good. Can anybody please suggest me a solution

As mentioned above iam also facing audio/sound problem in FC-4 . iam unable to play MP3 / ACD / Dat files on none of the players provided in FC-4 .

Have you tried using Helix? More specifically, have you tried playing an .ogg file through Helix?

Fedora Core (and everything else form RedHat) does not include codecs for mp3, wav, and wmv in the install for intellectual property infringement reasons. A package set called "Fedora Core extras" used to, and it was off-site at http://fedora.us and one other I cannot recall at the moment.

Video was the same sort of issue, ogg video and soe other format being the codecs that were shipped, but nothing for DVD, avi, mpeg, etc. for intellectual propety infringement reasons as well.

This is a little out of date, as ESR wrote it for FC1, and at least one of the supporting sites referenced no longer exists... but it gives you a good place to start:
http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Fedora-Multime...llation-HOWTO/

If your soundcard is recognized at install, and the music plays fine on the test, it may well be that you are simply missing a few codecs or players you need. I had a similarly confusing experience when I tried to play mp3s the first time.

The reason for all the problem is that RedHat will not include any software or codec that reads a format that they have not been given the unequivocal green light to use. mp3 is a proprietary format (like gif was, patented to Unisys until just recently US4,558,302) and as such every codec that is unlicensed could some day come under legal attention for "being used without license". For a short time there bfore the gif patent expired, Unisys went on a quick rampage trying to sue everyone who ever used a gif on a webpage or game without giving them royalties for suing their patented process. This sort of freaked out the open-standards community and folks like RedHat. So they are content to distribute a solid flavor of Linux sans any proprietary codecs, and just let prjects related to, but not actually supported by RedHat provide extra bundles for Helix, Xine, etc.

Hope this helps. It really sounds at this point like you don't have any system-level hardware problems, you're just missing a few pieces to the multi-media puzzle.

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