On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 10:57 -0700, Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 08:53 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > > I've been trying to get the music player Rhythmbox to play mp3 files. > > I've followed the instructions in the FC4 installation notes > > (http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_4_installation_notes.html) that > > include the following: > > > > "Rhythmbox (Music Player) is the default music player in FC4 but does > > not come with MP3 support out of the box because of patent issues. To > > enable MP3 support for Music Player configure apt and synaptic as > > described above. In Synaptic click on the "reload" icon to update your > > package list. Find the gstreamer stuff and click in the checkboxes (then > > click "Mark for installation") for each of "gstreamer", > > "gstreamer-plugins", "gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio", and > > "gstreamer-tools". Click the "Apply" button in Synaptic. You should now > > have MP3 support in Rhythmbox (Music Player)." > > > > After doing this, Synaptic shows gstreamer (0.8.10-1) gstreamer-plugins > > (0.9.8-9), gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio (0.8.8-2.2.fc4), and > > gstreamer-tools (0.8.10-1) all marked as installed. > > > > Any suggestions as to how to proceed? Do I need to install more > > "gstreamer stuff"? Googling various combinations of "gstreamer", > > "rhythmbox", and "mp3" has left me totally confused as to why this mp3 > > work-around... isn't working. > ---- > works for me - I can't get it to play aac/m4a files but that's another > matter... > > # rpm -qa|grep gstreamer > gstreamer-plugins-extra-video-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 > gstreamer-tools-0.8.10-1 > gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.7-1.2.fc4.rf > gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 > gstreamer-0.8.10-1 > gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-9 > > does that look similar to what you have going on? (perhaps you might not > have gstreamer-ffmpeg but that has nothing to do with playing mp3 files. root@PuteB Sun Jan 01 12:54:45 [203] /home/magnusg $ rpm -qa|grep gstreamer gstreamer-devel-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-9 gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 gstreamer-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.8-9 gstreamer-tools-0.8.10-1 Assuming (1) I don't need gstreamer-ffmpeg-0.8.7-1.2.fc4.rf or gstreamer-plugins-extra-video-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 to get Rhythmbox to play mp3 files and (2) the presence of gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.8-9 in addition to our common gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-9 isn't affecting anything adversely, then the crucial difference seems to be that I have gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 installed while you are using gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 I found gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-1.8.11-0.lvn.2.4.i386.rpm on the "extra audio plugins for GStreamer" website (http://rpm.livna.org/fedora/4/i386/RPMS.lvn/repodata/repoview/ gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4.html) and downloaded it. Then: root@PuteB Sun Jan 01 13:12:42 [206] /home/magnusg $ rpm -ivh *.rpm warning: gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-1.8.11-0.lvn.2.4.i386.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID a109b1ec Preparing... ########################################### [100%] file /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstfaad.so from install of gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 conflicts with file from package gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 file /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstgsm.so from install of gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 conflicts with file from package gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 file /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstlame.so from install of gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 conflicts with file from package gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 file /usr/lib/gstreamer-0.8/libgstmad.so from install of gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 conflicts with file from package gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 So, I deleted package gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.8-2.2.fc4 and installed gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-1.8.11-0.lvn.2.4.i386.rpm successfully: Rhythmbox still wouldn't work. So, just in case, I deleted gstreamer-plugins-devel-0.8.8-9 -- still to no effect. Here are my current gstreamer packages: root@PuteB Sun Jan 01 13:35:48 [217] /home/magnusg $ rpm -qa|grep gstreamer gstreamer-plugins-extra-audio-0.8.11-0.lvn.2.4 gstreamer-devel-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-plugins-0.8.8-9 gstreamer-0.8.10-1 gstreamer-tools-0.8.10-1 Any suggestions as to how to proceed?
