FLAC on FC13

[Steven Stern]

On 09/16/2010 12:54 PM, JD wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/16/2010 10:24 AM, Steven Stern wrote:
>> On 09/15/2010 01:34 PM, JD wrote:
>>>
>>> On 09/15/2010 10:34 AM, Michael Miles wrote:
>>>> Alex wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>> How can I play FLAC audio files on FC13? MPlayer and Rythmbox don't
>>>>>>> seem to support them?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes they do, what errors are you seeing when you run mplayer from the
>>>>>> commandline maybe paste the output of
>>>>>> mplayer -v<the flac file I want to play>
>>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, my mistake. I was trying to select the contents of the folder
>>>>> instead of the folder name, ugh.
>>>>>
>>>>> Need more caffeine.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Alex
>>>>>
>>>> Although Mplayer and Rythmbox do support Flac give VLC a try.
>>>> I use it for ALL Media
>>> Rhythmbox does not support flac. I just tried it.
>>>
>>> vlc, xine, mplayer (and variants like smplayer, kmplayer)
>>> do indeed play flac
>> It uses the gstreamer plugins
>>
>> Install gstreamer-plugins-good
>>
>> While you're at it, it wouldn't hurt to install gstreamer-plugins-bad
>> and gstreamer-plugins-ugly, too.
>>
> I do have all of the above:
> $ rpm -q gstreamer-plugins-good gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly
> gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25-1.fc13.i686
> gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.19-1.fc13.i686
> gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.15-1.fc13.i686
> 
> furthermore, I also have
> 
> /usr/lib/libFLAC.so@
> /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so@
> /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6@
> /usr/lib/libFLAC++.so.6.2.0
> /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8@
> /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8.2.0
> 
> /usr/lib/libFLAC:
> libFLAC.so@
> libFLAC++.so@
> libFLAC++.so.6@
> libFLAC++.so.6.2.0
> libFLAC.so.8@
> libFLAC.so.8.2.0
> 
> 
> 
> still, rhytmbox will not play flac.
> 

I don't know if this will help:

[sdstern at sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep gstreamer
gstreamer-plugins-good-0.10.25-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-0.10.19-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.10.10-2.fc13.i686
gstreamer-python-0.10.16-1.fc12.i686
gstreamer-plugins-base-0.10.30-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-rtsp-0.10.5-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-plugins-ugly-0.10.15-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-tools-0.10.30-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-plugins-bad-free-0.10.20-1.fc13.i686
gstreamer-0.10.30-1.fc13.i686
PackageKit-gstreamer-plugin-0.6.6-2.fc13.i686
[sdstern at sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep rhythm
rhythmbox-equalizer-1.4-1.fc13.i686
rhythmbox-0.12.8-4.fc13.i686
[sdstern at sds-desk ~]$ rpm -qa |grep flac
flac-1.2.1-6.fc12.i686
[sdstern at sds-desk ~]$


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-- Steve