No Playback Fedora 10 64-bit

[Beso]

2008/12/7 Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu>:
> Neal Becker wrote:
>
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>>> Justin Brown wrote:
>
>>>>  However, I have the exact same
>>>> problem on Fedora 10. I can build my collection, but when I try to play
>>>> anything (tried aac, mp3, and flac) the progress bar fills up within a
>>>> second, and it switches to the next song.
>
>>> Fedora doesn't support nonfree/patented codecs out of the box, so that's
>>> the expected behavior of amarok when playing such items (mp3, aac)
>
>> Too bad we don't get a more useful diagnostic.
>
> amarok folks, what say you?  Is something like this (a more useful error) within amarok/phonon reasonably possible?
>

usually distros like fedora and opensuse build with a limited edition
of xine-lib. for that reason you should first update your xine-lib
to support the codecs and then reinstall phonon (you might need to use
a different precompiled version of phonon than the one
provided by the official version) and then amarok should work. also
wma (version 9 mainly) files don't really play on linux.

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dott. ing. beso