XMMS, MPEG3 encoding, and RH9 Help

Hell Cheese · 05-30-2004, 02:31 PM

I just copied my mp3s (all of them legal, mind you) from another partition from Windows, and was wondering why I got this message from XMMS: (I would post a URL, but I don't have enough posts)

Quote:

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

Is there any way to play mp3s in Redhat, like reinstalling the MPEG codecs or something?

Patrique · 05-30-2004, 04:22 PM

just google for "mp3 plugin xmms redhat" (without quotes). If you do a worldwide search the 3rd result will be what you're looking for. If you have fedora, look for fedora instead of redhat.
Download the specific rpm file and install it as root (su) by typing rpm -ivh packagename.

good luck!

proudclod · 05-30-2004, 05:40 PM

open up a terminal, su, and run "yum install xmms-mp3"

That should work if you have yum, a well set up yum.conf and are connected to the net.

Ironica · 05-30-2004, 05:54 PM

I had exactly the same thing happen in Fedora Core 2. Just go download and install xmms over the one that came with your distro, problem solved.
http://www.xmms.org/download.php