What next?

[seth vidal]

> 	Ogg is great,  for instance,  and I rip CDs with ogg,  but if I want to  
> listen to 99% of the audio streams out there,  I need mp3,  and that's a  
> matter of trashing the multimedia stuff that comes with Fedora and  
> replacing it.

Trashing? No. It's been my experience that all that it takes is
installing on gstreamer plugin from livna and one set of libraries for
it.

then it's done.

what do you have to trash?

> 	I know you can't really do anything about it,  but this underlying  
> problem makes improvements to multimedia players on Fedora like  
> rearraigning the deck chairs on the titanic.
> 

not really. As long as they allow simple plugins it works nicely, I've found.

-sv