On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 13:39 -0800, Gerhard Magnus wrote: > 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? ---- make life easier on yourself and install the livna repository... rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release4.rpm then yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3 perhaps even yum upgrade Craig
