Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Darryl L. Pierce wrote: >> Okay, relative newbie question: >> >> Why does Fedora default to HelixPlayer for MP3s and then throw up the >> message "The player does not have the capabilities to play back this >> content"? Why doesn't Fedora install MP3 (and MPEG-4) support by >> default, and how do I install these so that my default player for >> both types (HelixPlayer and Totem) will actually play MP3 and MPEG >> files? >> > http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/release-notes/fc4/errata/#sn-why-no-mp3 The situation has become even more fun recently with a licensing company collecting royalties for mp3 patents held by France Telecom and Philips among others. With a little luck commercial mp3 might quietly die off. I would advise the OP to have a look at <http://www.fedorafaq.org/> for advice on playing mp3 in Fedora. As for Helix, the Realplayer 10 for Linux binary from Real includes support for closed codecs, including mp3. -- imalone
