Fwd: Codecs for Amarok

[Ian Monroe]

Everyone in this thread... you realize it wasn't Alex with the question right?

I hope you forwarded your answers to poor Syamel. :)

Ian

On 2/10/07, J Sloan <joe at tmsusa.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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
>
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