[linux-audio-user] Fedora 5 and mp3...

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Fri Jan 5 14:53:55 EST 2007


On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 11:12 -0800, Russell Hanaghan wrote:
> I have, for the first time, set up FD5 and CCRMA for a look see. I like 
> how it all works and the RT kernel runs sweet and gives very low Xrun 
> free latency. My only curiosity is that Redhat seem to be not interested 
> in pushing the mp3 licensing envelope. Xmms and Amarok wont play my 
> extensive list of MP3's citing Redhat does not support the format due to 
> said licensing issues.
> 
> Other than building from source, are there any players out there that do 
> support MP3 under FC5?

just add livna to your repository list (google for it), and you'll be
good to go. i use fc5 with mp3's all the time. the fact that RH/Fedora
"Core" doesn't support it doesn't mean that Fedora cannot.

--p





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