MP3 support?

Bryan Anderson fedora at bryananderson.co.uk
Fri Nov 7 21:36:04 UTC 2003


Michael Schwendt wrote:

> > If I 'rpm -Uvh --force' it then it installs, but on playing
> > an mp3, there is no sound and it plays a three minute mp3 in
> > three seconds!
> 
> Difficult to comment on since you force-installed a package I'm
> not familiar with. Check XMMS preferences on what audio output
> driver you use. Depending on whether you run GNOME or KDE, this
> may be "eSounD" or "aRts" or even directly to kernel OSS driver.
> Maybe the problem is in that area.

That solved the problem - looking in Options in xmms, it had the
output set to 'Disk Writer Plugin 1.2.8' and changing that to the
other option given ('OSS Driver 1.2.8') makes it work fine.

Thanks for the tip!

Bryan Anderson <fedora at bryananderson.co.uk>





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