MP3 support?

Paco Avila pavila at gitconsultors.com
Fri Nov 7 08:20:02 UTC 2003


El jue, 06-11-2003 a las 18:43, nosp escribió:
> On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 17:12, Paco Avila wrote:
> > How can I play MP3 files on Fedora Core 1? I need something like
> > xmms-mp3 and Rhythmbox (or GStreamer) support.
> 
> MP3 support isn't distributed because of license concerns.  Please try
> to use of a free audio format like ogg (http://www.vorbis.com/), which
> is already available on multiple platforms (including windows) if at all
> possible.  This way we will hasten the adoption of these formats and be
> able to enjoy music without concerns :).
> 
> If you must use MP3s for some reason, you can buy a player or have to
> get the mp3 libraries from places of questionable legality.
> 
> If you just installed Fedora, use yum to get the packages by adding
> these lines to the end of your /etc/yum.conf:
> 
> ---
> [livna-stable]
> name=Livna 3rd party packages with questionable licenses -- use at your
> own risk
> baseurl=http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/0.95/i386/yum/stable

It's a good idea mix Fedora 0.95 packages with Fedora 1?





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