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

From: Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
Date: Fri Jan 05 2007 - 21:53:55 EET

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
Received on Sat Jan 6 00:15:03 2007

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