Xine, amarok, kaffeine incompatibility

[Trever Fischer]

On Monday 16 July 2007 6:03:37 pm Donn Washburn wrote:
> Harald Sitter wrote:
> > On Monday 16 July 2007 23:31:37 Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> >> I had the same problems shortly after this. I
> >> reinstalled my linux (Fedora 7) over. Even then I had
> >> the freeze.
> >
> > Personal statement: don't use Fedora!
>
> A friend of mine is a Red Hat employee and he said they do not support
> MP4 and that is why he uses xmms (as I remember) and not Amarok.
> That is a shame!  I guess also because Fedora/Red Hat use gnome and not
> KDE.  Amarok seems to work well in SuSE 10.3 Alpha 5.  However, xine is
> crippled by SuSE for legal reasons.  You need to compile xine-lib and
> have all of the sound stuff from the CD/DVD.  To play a DVD you will
> need libdvdcss also.
>
> Amarok is the best streaming and file.mp3 player I have run across.

Fedora is not as strongly affiliated with Red Hat as they used to be. Fedora, 
for all intents and purposes, is a totally separate organization. Since this 
schism (which actually happened at the end of FC4's release), Fedora 
supporters have been hard at work towards making KDE on fedora better.

Regardless, Amarok shouldn't freeze when it tries to play MP3s. It should 
simply show the error messsage about the engine not being able to play that 
file format. Installing xine-lib-extras-nonfree adds mp3 and a whole lot of 
other copyrighted formats to xine's support. No recompilations or anything 
needed.

Its really the Fedora organization's fault for not supporting MP3/whatever 
right out of the box. But its not like they totally prevent it. Their main 
drive is for libre software. That doesn't mean they don't give instructions 
how to add other software repos like livna/atrpms that contain the non libre 
software.

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