Fwd: Codecs for Amarok

[J Sloan]

Donn Washburn wrote:
> J Sloan wrote:
>> Alexandre Oliveira wrote:
>>> ------- Forwarded message -------
>>> From: "Syamel Shahrir" <paperboy13_6 at hotmail.com>
>>> To: aleprj at gmail.com
>>> Cc:
>>> Subject: Codecs for Amarok
>>> Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2007 03:13:39 -0000
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> This might be a silly question. I'm a new user for to SuSe 10.2. I need  
>>> all the codecs for Amarok so I can play all my music from windows.
> I see your are looking for what goes in /usr/lib/win32 - I think they 
> are called
> "essentials".  They are like to be hard to find and consist of about 50 
> file.dlls that work in linux.
> 
> Fedora Info
> "http://www.gagme.com/greg/linux/fc6-tips.php"
> essential-20061022.tar.bz2 - ? "http://www.mininova.org/tor/484555"
> 
> "http://englanders.cc/~jason/howtos.php?howto=mplayer"
> 
> Good luck at find them
> 
> And for you RPM types.  A absolutely fresh SuSE 10.2 load would not play 
> audio but the amarok GUI would come up only as root.  I had to fix it by 
> compiling xine-lib (the above essentials installed). With all of the CD 
> audio/video devel headers.  Then, taglibs (which fails to compile) and 
> for xine-lib - libdvdcss (which is not available on SuSE's CDs)
> Finally, amarok-1.4.5.  Glad to say SuSE's RPM is fixed

LOL, you did it the hard way ;)

I just took a fresh install of suse 10.2, installed smart, then:

smart install amarok kaffeine mplayer mplayerplug-in w32-codec-all

Voila! full on amarok-1.4.5 (and more), no muss, no fuss, no compiling.

Joe